tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172104392018-03-17T05:42:21.698-07:00Applied Impossibilities<b>I am interested in all aspects of science and technology, economics and social solutions. Alone each is useless and makes no impact. Together we have the tools to feed billions, banish war and disease. With this blog I hope to make a small contribution. Expect also a little science fiction and some theology.</b>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-86935614695618386622018-02-01T04:48:00.001-08:002018-02-01T05:16:34.922-08:00Reforming global currency and debt. Someone on YouTube predicted the final collapse of the world fiat currency system. He ruled out violent revolution. His solution:<br />Plan 1 Tax strike: but then you get thrown in jail. <br />Plan 2 Blockade congress: OK = get thrown in jail with friends. <br />Plan 3 call for a military mutiny against government. Err... wait how is that not violent revolution?<br /><br />Some of us have a better set of plans. <br /><b>1.</b> Develop replacement currencies bitcoin and gold notes. https://shiresilver.com/<br /><b>2. </b>Point out to those in power that in a currency collapse their favourite shop in Brussels, New York or Washington wont be able to restock. They will starve with the rest of us.<br /><b>3.</b> Develop Assurance Contract sites [crowd funding] and debug it by crowd funding cool stuff.<br /><b>4.</b> Crowd fund those things [public goods] that government claims to do with taxes and borrowing. Thus making taxes obsolete and getting stuff done faster.<br /><b>5.</b> Authorise the creation of thousands of new debt free banks (congress just did that bit last year).<br /><br />We are not finished yet but there are a lot of people in high places with bitcoin accounts just in case.﻿<br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-61308541559444997522018-01-28T22:43:00.002-08:002018-01-28T22:43:31.072-08:00Shadow banning and Demonetization. <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Most conservatives probably think the left is just demonetizing the right on YouTube but they are doing it to almost everyone including some popular gamer YouTubers, people talking about Star Trek and Star Wars and even popular arts and crafts YouTubers!?! Similar things are happening on Facebook and Twitter and even some of the art sites like Pinterest.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Something more than just left verses right bias is happening. I think a key part of their algorithm is broken. All these sites are trying to take out Islamist's content on their sites; It is reasonable to expect a counter attack from the Islamists. The simplest counter attack is to get everything else banned too. Reporting sites both conservative and profitable as spam, porn, terrorist and otherwise contrary to the the allowed policy. There is no way all reported material can be reviewed in two or three days. It is definitional of social media that there is too much for any human to screen. The Algorithms them selves are vulnerable to trolling and abuse.<br /><br />So Islamists are reporting anything and everything, while people on the left are reporting conservative and right wing stuff as say porn when its not. It is interestingly rare for people on the right to falsely report the left even for genuinely offensive material. To the right such things should be seen both to rally the cause and to some extent because they are seen as signs of desperation on the left.<br /><br />The algorithm bans reported pages etc automatically or demonetizes the YouTube account. It is Guilty until proven innocent and if you don't complain to the overworked people in the head office then human eyes never check the post that's reported or the channel that's demonetized. Both Facebook and YouTube is losing money as a result. <br /><br />Worse still with content in some parts of Asia, the people checking the content there are sub contractors in Pakistan and other predominantly Islamic countries. India is priced out of the market and don't know the languages. So you have Muslims looking at and trying to screen content for Islamic terrorism and porn! <br /><br />There is only one solution. Social media needs to drop anonymous reporting and switch to pseudo-anonymous reporting with a rating system for reports. Those found to be reporting non porn sites as porn should be down-rated and ignored when they reach a threshold. <br />Like wise anyone that is <u>falsely</u> reporting&nbsp; sites as somehow unacceptable need to be logged, down-rated and ignored. Those who report terrorist, crime and real nasty porn should be up rated too and given priority on the ban/ block. <br /><br />This will not fully solve the bias in the social media screeners but a second rating algorithm is needed in that case. If non porn but “insensitive” material flags are used this is where we get the biggest political problem. <br /><br />The bulk of social media screeners are university educated young people and so tend to be on the left. (The universities may be greatly reformed soon but that is a different matter.) Many will also grow out of their leftist positions as they get smashed in the face by hard reality. Many on the left can't afford to live in California any more.&nbsp;<br />The first solution is to check the number of likes. A site with truly insensitive material should not have a lot of public likes. Prager university will have millions of likes where as some random holocaust denier will have only a few dozen. A pro terrorist jihad site will have a low base in the English world while a site critical of Islamic terrorism will have a much larger base, even though the same video may appear on both: one is a warning and so, like the naked victims of the holocaust, must be seen.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />Then&nbsp;jury the question across several people in the public network. The dislike button should have some weight but there is a problem. People use that if the like the context but disagree with its conclusion. It is possible to be both very popular, widely shared with 50% dislikes. A like but disagree button may help.&nbsp;<br /><br />If neutrality is genuinely desired by these companies then this should suffice. If however the staff of Google, Facebook, YouTube and twitter are genuinely left of centre then there is little that can be done to save these businesses. Capital and advertising are both very capitalist things. Competition is arising: Gab, Twitch TV, Wistia, Vidyard, Brightcove, SproutVideo, Vimeo. This is just for YouTube. <br /><br />That said Facebook and YouTube have seen a drop off in views and I suspect the Chief Financial Officer will over rule and political bias on the board. Left wing CEO's and their companies are quickly separated. <br /><br />So I think vetting the people trolling social media will be implemented. If, as I suspect, Islamists and trolls are attacking western social media itself even the left wing staff of YouTube and Facebook will grasp that they need to vet the anonymous reports of content and ignore the false reports.<br />All the ELUA's will need to be changed with a line or two on gaming the system added. Some countries my also need to change legislation.<br /><br />Wesley Bruce</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-135188768905161732017-10-15T20:15:00.000-07:002018-01-09T17:13:36.622-08:00How President Crump has won.<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />I have my Facebook friends completely confused when I talk US politics. <br />One asked:<br />"Do you think RINOs helped nominate Trump because they thought he was least likely to win against Hillary?"<br /><br />No I think Reince Priebus and the RINO's were trying to block Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus at all costs. They used Trump to block Cruz but then failed to organise someone to topple Trump at the convention via the second or third vote strategy. They tried to manipulate the convention and its rules but botched it. <br />Their candidates Jeb Bush and John Kasich were no match for Hillary. In simple terms they believed their own propaganda about Bush and Kasich and believed the lefts propaganda about Hillary beating conservatives like Ted Cruz and I doubt they really thought it though with Trump until Jeb Bush dropped out. At the convention they blocked Ted but had no-one else to go with as a candidate from the floor. Romney and several others turned the plotters down. Anyone inclined to accept was clearly un-electable. <br /><br />So they switched to plan B get Trump elected and controlling him. I don't think they expected Hillary to win. She had lost the rust belt to Trump and the black vote was lost to Facebook history memes of the KKK democrat party connections. The black vote stayed home. To get Trump to a winning number on the first vote they transferred votes from Bush and Kasich to Trump without telling the delegates or Trump. Ted Cruz had the numbers to force it to a second vote and would have won the second convention vote. That was unacceptable to some at the convention. <br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Ted Cruz saw Reince Priebus control of Trump coming. He also saw the great danger of Hillary winning in the south east and south west where Trump was weakest but in those areas Ted Cruz was much stronger so he passed almost all of his campaign personnel to Trump. He also seems to have passed all his cabinet picks and maybe his VP pick, Mike Pence, to Trump creating an unbeatable machine in the election. Kellyanne Conway was added to the mix to keep things organised. She was a Cruz organiser and fund raiser.<br /><br />Then once back in the Senate Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus&nbsp; launched a policy blitz beating Priebus out of the White house. As the battle for Obamacare repeal and replace progressed Priebus was blocking the Freedom caucus and other conservatives from getting to Trump. The RINO's that backed and wanted to control Trump actually do not have any viable alternative policies. They have never articulated policy to achieve Trumps goals or their own. The freedom caucus is clear and public in terms of goals and policy. <br /><br />Instead of fighting Trump the freedom caucus is trying to find ways to make the results Trump articulated policy work. That is why the wall is a fence in places. They already knew, as do Trump supporters, that the key is enforcement and that the guards need to be able to see through the wall in most places. Priebus recommendations failed repeatedly, while Cruz had got working people and policies in where it mattered. Eventually Reince Priebus had to leave beaten.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />So what about Steve Bannon?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Steve Bannon and also Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan were all on board with Trump early. I suspect that they all sounded out Ted Cruz and a few others in 2014 but Cruz, Rand Paul and others Libertarian favoring caucus members would not go along with all of their plans. <br />Bannon, Gingrich, Buchanan want protectionism to be the banner but a different kind of protectionism than the 1930's and 1960's. All conservatives not just Ted Cruz want real free trade not fake free trade but he is not willing to threaten protectionism to get it. The catch is that without threats of protectionism your going into a trade negotiation empty handed and <b>naked</b>. [No you can't do free trade by simple declaration as the libertarians want to. ] Trump understood the need to threaten protectionism to get true free trade so they backed Trump. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />I think Cruz (and Newt) also understands that some industries are truly obsolete and will never return and that's is a real problem for the percentage of people in those dying fields that genuinely can't be retrained. <br /><br />The past six months all five men have learned that they will have to converge their positions creating a more nuanced program of policies. If they can't do that they wont get a policies though. <br /><br />Bannon has not been kicked out of the White house. He has realized that the problem is not the committees in the White house. Attending meetings is point less if you discover that the committee all agrees yet the government genuinely can't do some things even with full control of both houses and the White house. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />It needs to be not just take a majority in congress. You must obliterate the Democrats and the RINO's AND 30 million bureaucrats that will not implement policy even when ordered to. (That's a big unreported story). <br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In that you need a permanent campaign mode and so Bannon has been redeployed where he can do the most good at Breitbart.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="firstHeading"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="firstHeading1"></a> Bannon is not a libertarian or CATO type conservative so he still disagrees with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul on things. And Cruz and Paul differ to. Like me he probably thinks that such things will work but that we simply can't sell them. This was always Ted's problem you can't talk complex policy in a pub. Newt has the same problem. Unintelligible policy wonks might be right but can't win if no-one understands a word their saying. Trump simply does not try. <br /><br />In the next months we will see people aligned to both Trump and Cruz running against incumbent RINO's that face re election in 2018. There will also be people running against the most vulnerable Democrats in the Rust belt. The DNC gerrymandered those blue collar districts to hold them half a century ago but with the blue collar vote flipping to Trump they guaranteed they will now loose them.<br /><br />Watch the southern black districts too. A new generation of black Republicans are running there and the same memes that broke Hillary's grip in 2016 will now switching up to the next stages pointing out that Marx, Lenin, <span lang="en">Andrew Jackson and Lyndon B. Johnson were not black and that Frederick Douglass, the first black congressmen and Martin Luther King jr were all Republicans. The democrats are not being helped by black lives matter crowds with marxist banners or KKK actively reminding everyone that they were once called the "the military arm of the Democratic Party". These things are piling up and will drive a disconnect between socialism and black rights. It will happen very fast without warning and the DNC can only afford to loose 10% of the black vote to loose half the south permanently. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Democrats have lost the old industrial states on the great lakes. The left is losing its grip on the black vote. The LGBT block is tiny; vocal but not enough to matter and Harvey Weinstein has blown up half the feminist vote and most of the Hollywood lobby. The party may even die!</div><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />The RINO's, called the Tuesday group in congress, are a policy free zone. Out of ideas. They are pro-military and pro-police but left of center or clueless on everything else. They will face conservatives in their primaries. They will be forced to shift or loose well before November 2018. <br />We will get President Crump. Policy Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc signed into law by Trump to achieve his agenda because there is no other way. <br /><br />PS technically everyone's kicked out of the White house, not just Bannon, because their doing maintenance. No one is reporting where the National Security Council meetings are being held while they rip the wiretaps out of the Oval office.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-74338997536994966812017-07-19T07:20:00.000-07:002017-07-26T07:39:01.664-07:00Udajeet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>A star gate ship model.&nbsp;</u></div>The Udajeet. This is the single seat death glider from the movie. Very fiddly curves.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ECMVfUQ9tac/WW9mexwZWVI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/pReX9E8y8aUC2Q70mQGfUIo6jbgZxFS0QCLcBGAs/s1600/my_udageet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="743" height="175" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ECMVfUQ9tac/WW9mexwZWVI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/pReX9E8y8aUC2Q70mQGfUIo6jbgZxFS0QCLcBGAs/s320/my_udageet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The colours are royal purple, priestly purple, sky blue, silver and black. These are place holder materials. It has no weapons because someone else has made the weapons already.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kZ3hylG8k-o/WW9mldURa2I/AAAAAAAAAfU/T8DOT7VxZGg4lEL_sgFV2FfmXEhpFirfQCLcBGAs/s1600/my_udajeet_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="603" height="122" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kZ3hylG8k-o/WW9mldURa2I/AAAAAAAAAfU/T8DOT7VxZGg4lEL_sgFV2FfmXEhpFirfQCLcBGAs/s320/my_udajeet_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />There are differences with the movie version. However there are differences within the shots. It seems that top rail is close to the hull in one shot and farther out in another. Probably green screen artefacts.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BBwBJDD676Y/WW9mtaIdfiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/hA-YnIj_nzgtOvKNPFD9p084qwFR5cWrQCLcBGAs/s1600/my_udajeet_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="548" height="228" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BBwBJDD676Y/WW9mtaIdfiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/hA-YnIj_nzgtOvKNPFD9p084qwFR5cWrQCLcBGAs/s320/my_udajeet_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The back wing edges are not perfectly straight but you barely see that in the movie.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vON-WxUK_so/WW9mzHFof_I/AAAAAAAAAfc/cPc9NMW5X3Ms-6ok2zaaaP5_t9pOakvlgCLcBGAs/s1600/my_udajeet_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="640" height="118" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vON-WxUK_so/WW9mzHFof_I/AAAAAAAAAfc/cPc9NMW5X3Ms-6ok2zaaaP5_t9pOakvlgCLcBGAs/s320/my_udajeet_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Do the Goa'ald even have a word for landing gear?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8gplM_XGaVQ/WW9m2fr5VHI/AAAAAAAAAfg/Ve7nL9o-BzolBLjMIcD5xSb85EZA75afgCLcBGAs/s1600/my_udajeet_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="708" height="221" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8gplM_XGaVQ/WW9m2fr5VHI/AAAAAAAAAfg/Ve7nL9o-BzolBLjMIcD5xSb85EZA75afgCLcBGAs/s320/my_udajeet_4.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inside of the cockpit. Almost steam punk controls. This is very much simplified. The modeller went mad with greebles.&nbsp;</div>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OGqGOhYjA7g/WW9m53UaMoI/AAAAAAAAAfk/1c7QB3vWmnMfB3C73Gxe2YV9i8JgMjOpwCLcBGAs/s1600/Normal_movie01_1623.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="250" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OGqGOhYjA7g/WW9m53UaMoI/AAAAAAAAAfk/1c7QB3vWmnMfB3C73Gxe2YV9i8JgMjOpwCLcBGAs/s1600/Normal_movie01_1623.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In some movie shots the model looks grey or blue so the colours show this is clearly Ra's personal Udajeet.<br />More progress with the udajeet.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-91Y0YDSKMrw/WXipAPyW1cI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Ul_qE0Fpdysc12a8uJ5-6g6AnKvbntIKwCLcBGAs/s1600/royal%2Budajeetpng.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="830" height="153" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-91Y0YDSKMrw/WXipAPyW1cI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Ul_qE0Fpdysc12a8uJ5-6g6AnKvbntIKwCLcBGAs/s320/royal%2Budajeetpng.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DSOXcJHuDI/WXipFGZCCAI/AAAAAAAAAgI/BdphH4agb0clbNm1i9y-GMSqMLNBT_qIACLcBGAs/s1600/royal%2Budajeet3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="775" height="151" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DSOXcJHuDI/WXipFGZCCAI/AAAAAAAAAgI/BdphH4agb0clbNm1i9y-GMSqMLNBT_qIACLcBGAs/s320/royal%2Budajeet3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Nw33L4uj9g/WXipJjqDc0I/AAAAAAAAAgM/g-FCqZyFyd4QIDcki31NS4LyBGmttveRQCLcBGAs/s1600/royal%2Budajeet4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="727" height="182" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Nw33L4uj9g/WXipJjqDc0I/AAAAAAAAAgM/g-FCqZyFyd4QIDcki31NS4LyBGmttveRQCLcBGAs/s320/royal%2Budajeet4.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-irfRdJ30_1A/WXipPAWJn8I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/fa4Din1MUJ0wWK1MRbV9oi8pEQyzCT6OQCLcBGAs/s1600/royal%2Budajeet2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="848" height="156" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-irfRdJ30_1A/WXipPAWJn8I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/fa4Din1MUJ0wWK1MRbV9oi8pEQyzCT6OQCLcBGAs/s320/royal%2Budajeet2.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-17742674212025009722017-05-21T01:37:00.001-07:002017-05-21T01:37:33.743-07:00Houseboat model<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FxehlyasXTI/WSFRiO940NI/AAAAAAAAAdo/47oaS7aCJbM_K5fFt0GrByXVNn8w23PBACLcB/s1600/house%2Bboat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FxehlyasXTI/WSFRiO940NI/AAAAAAAAAdo/47oaS7aCJbM_K5fFt0GrByXVNn8w23PBACLcB/s400/house%2Bboat.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This is work in progress a houseboat for a game.<br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-8649330775248482732017-03-24T04:34:00.002-07:002017-03-24T06:24:14.153-07:004 memes showing the anarchist vacuum4 memes showing the anarchist vacuum.<br />Someone posted this on Facebook:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cwneiSOTWNk/WNT_V-wJVoI/AAAAAAAAAcY/YH9-CHyfxvMEpMqF1kEbSzOISPvac7ldQCLcB/s1600/17103525_1646052495690354_3733710508673793560_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cwneiSOTWNk/WNT_V-wJVoI/AAAAAAAAAcY/YH9-CHyfxvMEpMqF1kEbSzOISPvac7ldQCLcB/s640/17103525_1646052495690354_3733710508673793560_n.jpg" width="339" /></a></div><br />It is very very libertarian but it is sadly wrong. The anarchist vacuum problem. No safeguards.<br />I fixed it making another version. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GWc5N5UixHs/WNT_4BIRsAI/AAAAAAAAAcg/ltkDSq9lXB4d8LIWJ_eskbGrNriVCvGfwCLcB/s1600/lib%2Bregulation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GWc5N5UixHs/WNT_4BIRsAI/AAAAAAAAAcg/ltkDSq9lXB4d8LIWJ_eskbGrNriVCvGfwCLcB/s640/lib%2Bregulation.jpg" width="339" /></a></div>Yes its more complicated but that's the point. The free market is not a void or a magic fairy or even an invisible hand. We can't predict all the out comes but we can identify some of the known mechanisms. &nbsp; <br /><br />Then later in another facebook discussion a similar one was added:<br />Without government, who would provide _________?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c6FCaa8FlPA/WNUBgKCxdXI/AAAAAAAAAcs/EzcM-IAdizwGSZQgESYWOneGxEUm92P3gCLcB/s1600/17457428_747602222073164_454287541640767914_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c6FCaa8FlPA/WNUBgKCxdXI/AAAAAAAAAcs/EzcM-IAdizwGSZQgESYWOneGxEUm92P3gCLcB/s640/17457428_747602222073164_454287541640767914_n.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><br />&nbsp;It does not deal with the fundamental reasons for taxation in the first place, the assurance problem. So I fixed that one too.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yOoQnTFNuHY/WNUCFj2Ff3I/AAAAAAAAAc8/ZGmviMtH4fkkns0RuazKxUYslyTGNVAOgCLcB/s1600/Who%2Bwould.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yOoQnTFNuHY/WNUCFj2Ff3I/AAAAAAAAAc8/ZGmviMtH4fkkns0RuazKxUYslyTGNVAOgCLcB/s640/Who%2Bwould.jpg" width="609" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In both cases anarchists are attempting to replace something with nothing. Generating huge risks and making their policy positions unsaleable to the majority of voters.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>I have yet to find a good one on foreign policy. When I do I'll fix it and add it. <br /><br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-39087414236388645372017-01-14T22:11:00.000-08:002017-01-14T22:11:35.327-08:00Trumpism 101<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Trumpism 101</span></u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;"><br /></div>Trump tweets something insane early in the morning.<br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Social media explodes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px;">The left explodes and calls Trump fascist!</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The MSM makes sure everyone reads the tweet by the morning news and points out how dangerous it is.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The left is still busy swearing at Trump.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Conservative and libertarian sites point out that Trump's plan will fail and points out their solution.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Legislation miraculously matching the conservatarian solution promptly shows up pre-drafted in congress.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">They vote, it passes. Trump signs on the same day.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The Democrats and RINO's go on CNN to proudly announce that they have dodged the bullet and have blocked Trump.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The left goes WTF just happened??? They're still looking for the text of the legislation.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The libertarians say "no far that's our policy from 1990!" They're right.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">A few people like me talk about moved goal posts and bait and switch tactics. It's our turn now.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Trump and his advisers go over their list of 'spontaneous' tweets for next week.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-51156305848188609732016-07-06T06:01:00.000-07:002016-07-06T07:34:00.983-07:00Bypassing Lynch.Has James Comey just bypassed Lynch and Obama in one fell swoop? By outlining the evidence, showing she is guilty and then saying he was not going ahead with a recommendation of a charge. He has booked himself an appointment with congress. Several congressmen have contacted him. This completely by passes the Justice department, Loretta Lynch and the whole Obama administration.<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html?_r=1</a><br /><br />This has resulted members of the House and Senate Judiciary committee calling within minutes.&nbsp;Jason Chaffetz has already set up meetings.<br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/jason-chaffetz-testofy-james-comey-fbi/2016/07/05/id/737207/">http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/jason-chaffetz-testofy-james-comey-fbi/2016/07/05/id/737207/</a><br /><br /><br />There is no precedent for impeaching an ex government officer but by setting it up as an enquiry into the Comey statement he has created a situation where he, Comey, the other FBI staff, can speak freely in public and Hillary and her staff can be called by congress under oath.<br /><br />Note this is the house committee not the Senate where it may be seen as in conflict because Ted Cruz is still in the running for Republican presidential nominee. Cruz of course has demanded all the evidence be made available to congress. This means the James Comey can't hand over originals to the Justice department. Loretta Lynch has openly said she would rather shred the files rather than prosecute her friend Hillary.<br /><br />If Comey had recommended a prosecution then Lynch could have killed the case within hours or days. Well before the Democratic party convention and the election. By openly redefining the law he forces congress to act and puts the case into the highest courtroom avaliable, congress itself. <br /><br />The question of intent becomes the the key subject of debate and that goes directly to the question of motivation, Hillarys, Huma Abedin, and other staff. Why was it convenient to go outside the secure systems? Why did they consistently refuse offers to secure their systems; both the servers and the blackberries? We all know the reasons that Hillary had? Freedom of information requests. An illegal reason. There may be another reason. Huma Abedin has family ties to the moslem brotherhood. Some think that the server was setup and data moved to it for the sole purpose of that data being hacked. <br /><br />Lynch and Obama want the server case cleared and forgotten. This kills any chance of that happening. A congressional enquiry will be broadcast worldwide. Keeping the case alive and ensuring that in the end the congress itself can call a Grand Jury over Lynch's head. While the case is live Hillary is damaged. The left don't care, they don't know anything about classification and hate FOI except when a Republican is in the White house.<br /><br />However the hard left is not enough to elect a democrat to any post they need independants. This will mean those independents will continue to stay away in droves. It means if Trump fails to seal the nomination and it's Ted Cruz in november Hillery may see millions of independents switch to him as an honest and hardworking alternative. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-84518335903099367272016-05-28T17:26:00.000-07:002016-05-31T01:53:16.536-07:00Why Trump will lose in Cleveland. Trump is relying on bound delegates to win but those arguing that the binding of delegates is disallowed in the party are now organized and publishing all the details. The Binding wording added in 2012 to block Ron Paul is now being exposed as only really valid for the 2012 convention and is up for revision in the first hours of the rules committee. <br /><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/26/trump-hasnt-closed-the-deal-gop-delegates-still-decide-who-the-nominee-will-be-commentary.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/26/trump-hasnt-closed-the-deal-gop-delegates-still-decide-who-the-nominee-will-be-commentary.html</a> It also did not work, see below.<br /><br />Curly Haugland is fighting hard against bound candidates. The PDF linked to in the above link is free.<br /><br />In simple terms it argues that a change in the wording of the rules was the dirty truck of 2012 and almost no one today supports it except Trump. Trump does not have the numbers in the rules committees and all delegates are unbound in the rules votes with Cruz way past 50% in those votes. This is why Cruz has persisted in getting his delegates into any vacant Trump spots. The Pledges on the first votes are unenforceable. They contradict all previous versions of the RNC rules except the 1976 one that was revoked in 1980.<br /><br />The parties are private entities not governments. Corporate rules apply and the courts have confirmed the difference every time.<br />Also it's not been confirmed that over 17 Ron Paul supporters in the Nevada's delegation, 2012 republican convention, did not vote their pledge to Romney. They did not have the numbers but were not penalized and their floor vote, sans pledge, was fully recorded as a Ron Paul vote. That was the majority of the Nevada's delegation beaching their pledge in 2012. It never even made the news did it?<br /><br />The election is in November the caucuses are not elections. Under American law they are all beauty contests and always were.<br /><br />Trump keeps running foul of the residency rule in many states. A delegate must be a resident of the district that he or she represents. Here is the Clause for California. "What are the requirements for being a delegate? You must be a registered Republican and a resident of the Congressional District you are representing. You must attend the Delegation Meeting on Saturday, June 25, 2016 near LAX. You must commit to vote for the presidential candidate by whom you are selected." https://www.cagop.org/national-delegation/<br /><br />In some cases Trump has either not found anyone or has not even submitted a list of prospective delegates. Note the last line "...by whom you are selected." If trump has not submitted the names then what does that wording mean?<br /><br />Even rolling stone gets the implications. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-zombie-ted-cruz-already-beat-trump-in-washington-20160524 "It is exactly the kind of thing Trump -- back when he still had a rival for the nomination -- would have railed against as evidence the system is "rigged" against his bid. But it's not part of an establishment conspiracy to snatch the nomination from under him; it's just embarrassing proof that team Trump has failed to execute some of the most basic functions required of a competitive presidential campaign. " ... "Cruz was able to win the vast majority of the Washington delegates because, when his campaign still existed, staffers put together lists of their preferred delegates -- a state convention voters' guide. The Trump campaign (and the Kasich camp, for that matter) didn't perform this extremely basic task. "I never saw a slate for Trump candidates," Crabtree says."<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;You dance with the guy that brung you.<br /><br />Trump is conspicuously silent on this and it has happened in all of the west coast states. He either does not understand the process or is not intending to win but is taking that act all the way so as to leave Ted Cruz the only man standing. I still can't tell which. This failure to get delegates lined up, even after being called in by Reince Priebus for a lecture on the point, does not help Hillary Clinton it only helps Ted Cruz.<br /><br />In the 12th district of California; Central San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi's district, Trump is allocated Peter Thiel a known libertarian and past Cruz supporter, House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, former House committee chairman Darrell Issa and congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. There is no way Trump came up with that list. They are bound but How can the RNC sanction a billionaire and two sitting congressmen for not voting their pledge? <br />http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/10/peter-thiel-paypal-co-founder-to-be-delegate-for-donald-trump<br /><br /><br />Cruz may beat Trump without the pledged delegate question. California is "winner take most" the worst worded electoral jargon on planet earth. In reality the state is proportional but at the district level. The winner of each district takes all 3 delegates but if Cruz gets 14 districts Trump is blocked at 1236. Trump only got 60% in Oregon unopposed. <br /><br />This map is useful it shows how California's districts votes. As Gary North says go and vote against the Tax and bond propositions (even anarchist got to the polls to vote against these things). This is one of the best indicators of political positions. Personalities and political popularity is not in play in such a vote. Proposition was a special tax to pay for education (teachers inflated pensions) in bankrupt California. It failed.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_30,_2012#/media/File:CA2012Prop30-NoColor.svg<br /><br />Yes Associated Press says Trump already has 1239 but they are assuming California is Winner take all and they are surveying unpledged delegates without saying who, what question they're asking and when they did the survey.<br /><br />Some think that if Trump loses at the convention there will be a backlash with Trump supporters however that does not work out either. We have seen record turnout at the primaries but Trump has only got 30 to 40 % of the vote. That means that 60 - 70 % of that massive turn out was there to oppose him. It's bigger than the total November 2012 republican vote. The christian conservatives are activated. Only a percentage of Trump supporters will stay home. <br /><br />The religious people supporting him tend to be new-age Pentecostals powered by dodgy prophesies. A prompt re-interpretation of the vision follows every such folly.<br /><br />In other words people will vote this time around. If Cruz wins at the convention the huge collective sigh of relief will result in people that would not have supported him six months ago would support him. Even the View TV show that cut Trump off mid sentence would have Cruz gladly as a replacement. He has proved that he has the people and the organization for a campaign.<br /><br />If the financial crisis hit Cruz's first term he will take it and use it to push through the reforms that are needed. Any one else would just take damage and make the crisis deeper. The anti-Cruz members of the republican party will not be able to attack the man that faced down Trump.<br /><br />I don't expect to be believed. However if I am right you will be the one person in the room that will understand what just happened! God is in control. He needs no organizing committees to set things up. If I am right he is putting someone in place, a Goldwater republican, to take the coming crisis and turn them into reform.<br /><div><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-25652800882033306172016-05-04T02:12:00.001-07:002016-05-04T06:40:03.774-07:00Republican fun and chaos. <br />Now the real fun starts.<br /><br />Ted Cruz has withdrawn. Trump will have 1237 at the republican convention at Cleveland next month.<br /><div><br />I was of the opinion that Trump was running a decoy campaign for Cruz. I still think that that was part of someone's plan but it went wrong. I don't think Trump or Cruz were involved. Look for someone Trump has sidelined.<br /><div><br />Trump has to fight Hillary but with what? Hillary is an easy scandal ridden candidate but has Trump been paying attention? All the attacks on her have already been made.</div><div><br />Now that Trump is only battling Kasich can he round on Kasich's history, background and policies? Again does he know them? Do they differ enough from his positions?</div><div><br />The greatest danger to Trump is always Trump. He has a month to go and plenty of opportunities to foul up.<br />Also now that Cruz is out of the picture, or so it seems, the media that has been supportive of Trump, because they hate Cruz's Christian conservatism, are now freed up to try and destroy Trump. And you know that the NeverTrump people will not let up.<br /><br />Before it gets to the first vote Ted Cruz still has hundreds of delegates that are obligated to vote for Trump but who were banking on it being a hung first vote. What do they do now? If Trump stuffs up further some may decide to do the unthinkable at the first vote; Abstain. <br /><br />Technically this means they have resigned and they could gladly and loudly do so. That is why all states have alternates. These alternates will step up to an unprecedented second First Vote. Some may vote and some may again abstain. Whole state delegations may take a stand.<br /><br />Yes it would trigger a brawl, a genuine fist fight and the genuine risk of ending the republican political party. It would be an active decision by some to kick off and run another party by 2020, this year is not possible. A new conservative republican party for 2020. Would it win. No but it may get seats in some state houses. We will see thousands going over to the libertarians.<br /><br />As several people have pointed out the US Two party system was always a coalition of multiple micro parties mistaken for factions. It only retained its position because other parties were blocked from registering and getting on the voter rolls and ballot papers. However the libertarians destroyed that barrier in all states a few years ago. <br /><br />Trump would win on the second first vote but even that will be disputed by some because a second first vote is a contradiction. Some will say that the resignations on a first vote makes the next vote the second vote with freed delegates. Even Reince Priebus would be battling for order right beside Trump against that idea. It may come down to Cruz taking the microphone as conciliator. That would work but it would also speak much. Remember the thing will be watched by billions this year. <br /><br />If no resignations occur Trump will be the nominee and the question will turn to the vice president vote. Rule 40 comes into play if they are still on the books.<br /><br />Here it is in full. Read it carefully.<br /><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><colgroup><col width="256*"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-AU"><span style="font-family: &quot;dyslexie&quot;;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">RULE NO. 40</span></span></div><div align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-AU"><span style="font-family: &quot;dyslexie&quot;;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nominations</span></span></div><div class="western" lang="en-AU"><span style="font-family: &quot;dyslexie&quot;;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(a) In making the nominations for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States and voting thereon, the roll of the states shall be called separately in each case; provided, however, that if there is only one candidate for nomination for Vice President of the United States who has demonstrated the support required by paragraph (b) of this rule, a motion to nominate for such office by acclamation shall be in order and no calling of the roll with respect to such office shall be required.<br />(b) Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight (8) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these rules or any rule of the House of Representatives, to demonstrate the support required of this paragraph a certificate evidencing the affirmative written support of the required number of permanently seated delegates from each of the eight (8) or more states shall have been submitted to the secretary of the convention not later than one (1) hour prior to the placing of the names of candidates for nomination pursuant to this rule and the established order of business.<br />(c) The total time of the nominating speech and seconding speeches for any candidate for nomination for President of the United States or Vice President of the United States shall not exceed fifteen (15) minutes.<br />(d) When at the close of a roll call any candidate for nomination for President of the United States or Vice President of the United States has received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the convention, the chairman of the convention shall announce the votes for each candidate whose name was presented in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of this rule. Before the convention adjourns sine die, the chairman of the convention shall declare the candidate nominated by the Republican Party for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.<br />(e) If no candidate shall have received such majority, the chairman of the convention shall direct the roll of the states be called again and shall repeat the calling of the roll until a candidate shall have received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the convention.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br />This means that Cruz is the only Vice President Trump can name on the day. Cruz has been the only person that Trump has ever talked about. Few people can think of an alternative. <br /><br />This also means that if Trump is to pick any one else he and Cruz must co-operate in the rules committee to get that rule scrapped on day one. This problem would have excluded Carly Fiorina too. Yet Trumps people will see rule 40 as essential to block Kasich or anyone John Boehner likes. Oh what a wonderful corner the party has painted itself into.<br /><br />It gets Better. The law was designed to block Ron Paul from any post but the Ron Paul delegates got angry and, then got organised and, now have a significant position on the rules committee. As semi libertarians they care about the issues than the party. As mostly tea party people (Paul), Trump and Cruz rules delegates see this as an outsider versus insiders battle. Tea party versus Rino not Trump versus Cruz.<br /><br />Trump and Cruz have fought hard, very hard. Could too much damage have been done? Possibly but remember Ronald Reagan and George H Bush fought very hard too in 1980. Yet they teamed up. Most don't know that John Adams was the first Vice President and he ran against George Washington not with him. He was what in most other political systems would be called the leader of the opposition in the Vice President post. He hated it!<br /><br />Would Cruz say no? It will be hard to say either thing. The questions will be: Can I tame this man? Who better to tame a lawless man than a lawyer that topped all his classes. <br />Will I lose all chances of running later if Trump or Hillary wins and I'm on the side lines? <br />Would America survive Trump or Hillary and still be intact in 2020? <br />Or will I be a guaranteed the presidency if Trump gets bored, impeached or just shot? <br />Would Trump run for a second term? That is highly unlikely. <br />How much damage to my reputation can I take and can I blame Rule 40b? <br />If Trump names someone really stupid that will make Ted Cruz's decision for him; 60-80% will demand him citing the rule.<br /><br />As I said it's not really one factionalised party any more it's three or four jammed into a box called RNC. The same is emerging in the DNC too. The hard left, students and teachers, socialist faction is backing Bernie. While the wall street left, many Muslim lobby groups and a gaggle of aging feminists and LGBT activists are backing Hillary. The age of political fission is upon us. <br /><br />It will be a hell of a show. Thankfully God is in control. It will be a day of Judgement but will it be judgement on the country or just the party? We shall see.</div><div><br /></div></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-80154171240452030932016-04-07T05:22:00.000-07:002016-04-08T02:52:07.113-07:00Trump's Function. It may not be Donald Trump's intention.<br />It may have been in the back of some of his staffers minds.<br />I think It's definitely God's plan. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0IkadXFmYXw/VwYtHjcFpuI/AAAAAAAAAYw/hMq-0TjOcV0kffj7s2efjKm3B_ra-Ie6w/s1600/sheepdog_Trump.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0IkadXFmYXw/VwYtHjcFpuI/AAAAAAAAAYw/hMq-0TjOcV0kffj7s2efjKm3B_ra-Ie6w/s400/sheepdog_Trump.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herding the sheep to the master.&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table>The republican party machine and the congress strongly opposed Ted Cruz. A true conservative was not acceptable. It would ruin their little deals, he would shut down pet projects, a factory in every state and district making one part for a tank. Cruz wants to shut down whole government departments because they are unconstitutional and ineffective. That scares the hell out of a republican congressman because if there are fewer departments there won't be as many bills to hide their earmarks in. Remember the left of any right wing party is just there to claw back a fair share of his voters taxes and redirect them away from socialist projects that he thinks is bad. Even Ron Paul did that. <br /><br />Those that want the country to continue the spending spree hate Ted. The freight train of national bankruptcy is coming and Cruz, and even Trump, knows it. Reform must come. Yet the lobbyists and their pet politicians resist. They make no money from smaller government and simpler rules.<br /><br />On his own Ted Cruz would have faced massive protests from the left, attacks from the Rino's and resistance from the RNC party machine at every caucus. <br />With Trump running they are all decoyed away. The left wing mobs organised by George Soros and the black lives matter people are at the Trump rallies shouting and being shouted down. As a result when Ted Cruz showed up in the Bronx this week only two protesters could find him. He had a chat to them.<br /><br />With Trump running, dozens of terrified non conservative politicians have turned to Cruz. Some gave him the most unenthusiastic endorsements in human history but that was enough to win. I do not think there terror is based on the possibility that Hillary will beat Trump. They fear that Trump will damage Republican candidates running for the house, the senate and governor posts. Their greater fear is that Trump may win and then not know what to do with the oval office. (If Hillary disappears and it is Sanders then the republicans are guaranteed the white house. )<br /><br />Trump has been getting the vote but in order to win in Cleveland Trump has to actually have people in the party on the ground in the states to allocate his winning delegate slots to. In some congressional districts he has failed that and the party found a bunch of eligible people standing around to fill those slots. Yes they are obligated to vote for Trump in the first one or two votes but they arrived on the Cruz bus. Always pays to carry a spare or two. This is what Trump was calling stealing the delegates. They were not stolen he never provided any delegate candidates in some places.<br /><br />With Trump in front but not getting more that 30%, all the effort to manipulate the rules to shut Cruz out is rendered impossible. Any attempt to put a third man in will fail. Trump and Cruz have the votes to vote down any rules change to make John Kasich or Paul Ryan the candidate from nowhere. It will be Trump or Cruz not anyone else. The irony is that the rules that now block Kasich, Ryan, or any other candidate from nowhere, were put in place to block Ronald Reagan (successfully on his first two runs), Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and 4 years ago Ron Paul.<br /><br />Early in the campaign I thought that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were working together to tag team the others in the party that it was president Crumpz run. The question was not whether they would win but which would be the other guys vice president. Trump even named Cruz once using a joke nickname, Justin Bieber, and once directly. Sadly Trumps PAC supporters blew it all away by attacking Heidi Cruz. Yes someone, not actually on Ted Cruz's team but definitely anti-trump, attacked Trumps wife but frankly if you're going to run for President knowing your wife modeled nude someone's mentions it. You have no right to object or get insulted when that happens, it was obvious. Every other time someone mentioned those pictures Trump just bragged about her good looks. He was not wrong. <br /><br />I do not believe that the National Enquirer attack on Cruz, with a not even convincing story of extramarital affairs, came from Donald Trump's camp. One of Trump's staff is pictured as one of the women. It may be Cruz's biggest mistake to assume it is from a Trump supporter. It is something some left wing would be scandal reporter cooked up to attack all of the republican candidates. It probably sat around on someone's desk since january. It's irrelevant. Anyone voting for Cruz knows it's fake. Anyone thinking it's real never remembers to vote.<br />Gawker just got sued for billions in damages over another scandal, hidden cameras in someone's bedroom, will get you bankrupting damages. Gawker is effectively propping up the National Enquirer financially. Gawker essentially is the web arm of the scandal mag. If one goes bankrupt they both do. So suddenly the unbelievably fake scandal on the editor's desk became his parting shot. You can't be sued if you're already bankrupt.<br /><br />However Cruz and his supporters are making two errors of note. They are attributing all attacks on them as coming from Trump's team. I genuinely don't think Trumps team is that well organised. The attacks are coming from people, some of whom are openly democrats, but have a talent for getting Trump social media fans to follow their lead. Trump has a good media team but the one thing they can't do is shut down attacks on Cruz and others that come from outside. It does not help that Trump repeats them sometimes.<br /><br />The second common mistake common with Cruz supporters (but not Ted himself) and all anti-trump people is to attack the Trump supporters as Trumpkins, Trumlings or just idiots. They are not fools. They are just really desperate and afraid. Most understand the threat of islam, the dangers of the politically correct social framework and the impact of trade on the industries they once worked for. But like almost everyone else they have not been given any solutions. Yes Ted Cruz and others have solutions but they are complex and detailed and based on ideas and premises that have not been taught in schools for three generations.<br /><br />Trump supporters are not uneducated or less intelligent. They are miseducated and they know it and their angry and scared. They &nbsp;see the problems but not the solutions. The most surprising thing is that we few who know of these complex and subtle solutions exist at all. Nothing taught in school got us where we are today. Cruz's teachers at harvard law school were all very left wing.<br /><br />It is now clear that Trump has peaked and will continue getting 30% or less in the next few states. He may get 40-50% in New York but it is closed primary which favors Ted Cruz and&nbsp;it's Winner-take-most which also favors Ted. New York is a big state not just the city. The up state vote (rural New York) will not go the same way as the city vote. Trump may again win&nbsp;Congregational District delegate slots only to have no one available to fill those slots. Enter Cruz's spares again. Running for President does require a little planning.<br /><br />I Expect Cruz to win on the second vote. I do not expect Trump to explode. He and his people will focus on stopping Kasich or any other candidate from nowhere from being parachuted in. This is actually a democrat party thing; it's never actually worked for a republican I don't think.<br />Trump will have two more months to come to terms with the fact that they don't have the ground game at the congressional district level. If he does not win the first vote out right he will switch to playing king maker. That role suits him fine, it gives him bragging rights without the workload. <br />Remember they worked so well together in the early part of the race against the Party favorites. At Cleveland if Trump does not have a clear majority it will turn into an outsiders versus the insiders. A battle between those that know that a recession is coming and government bankruptcy is pending; and those that want to kick the can one more term and hope for a miracle money tree to sprout somewhere on the Washington lawns. <br /><br />Trump is the decoy candidate for Cruz. A candidate that is popular, enticing but just a little inferior to the other guy. A decoy product is a product that draws people to another product. It entices people away from the rest of the competition but is flawed relative to another product. This makes the choice binary and people put the decoy back on the shelf and buy the best.<br /><br />As I said while someone in the wood work may have had this in mind only God can engineer such things. We are in a huge multilayered mess it will take a man of faith, law and genius to save the day; or at least mitigate the damage. Ted Cruz is the only candidate available and capable out there.<br /><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-8953751650938820662016-01-13T17:10:00.000-08:002016-01-13T17:56:48.392-08:00Rail versus the baltic dry index<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wesley Bruce</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Gary North a leading Austrian school economist and historian talked about the Baltic dry index tanking. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.garynorth.com/members/14629.cfm">http://www.garynorth.com/members/14629.cfm</a> It has fallen badly indicating that an economic disaster is happening, we are sliding into a depression. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Note: the BDI is USD hire paid per day for the four bulk cargo classes and it's down to $402. It's a very bad sign. It's not $ per ton. If people stop buying bulk cargo they have stopped producing at at the scale we have seen in the past. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As I write it looks like the stock market has caught on and, on pretty obvious Chinese numbers that everyone should have expected, the stock markets crashed. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It's even worse because the HARPEX index of containerized freight has virtually sailed off the edge of the earth. <a href="http://www.harperpetersen.com/harpex/harpexVP.do">http://www.harperpetersen.com/harpex/harpexVP.do</a> It's fallen to 363 TEU 1 TEU is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container going by sea per day. A 45 foot container is 2 TEU. Only 14% of all container shipping is included in Harpex but it is representative. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">While this is bad it may be a little worse. Neither may fully recover, ever. They may become obsolete indicators. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Rail heads.</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">My brother is a rail fan, not a train spotter but someone that is into studying the technology of the tracks and someone that is looking where you would or could put new commuter and freight lines. Over Christmas he showed us a dozen youtube videos of the latest track laying systems. (yep my family is that weird) Our grandfather was a railway man. In his day it took 20 - 30 men and several weeks to lay a 100 miles of track. Today it takes half as many men and a quarter the time. Today it's definitely skilled labor not unskilled labor. This caught my eye: </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nNo53YktOPU">https://youtu.be/nNo53YktOPU</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All the heavy lifting is machines and there is a machine for every job. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/TNaH4IiTdVU">https://youtu.be/TNaH4IiTdVU</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And this one. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/w_wKYp4ovTo">https://youtu.be/w_wKYp4ovTo</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Its a track renewal system that literally replaces the rails under itself. The train is riding on rails that it itself is carrying off the ground! </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Here are the details of how a new track is laid. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/i6VYuw52z-0">https://youtu.be/i6VYuw52z-0</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And this one is the biggest track layer in the world, at the moment. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/XwiNaHmOscU">https://youtu.be/XwiNaHmOscU</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But this one is already 5 years old.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There are hundreds of these machines. All slightly different. There are only a few hundred needed. Lay a hundred miles of tracks and it's there for decades. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>A question occurred to me.</u> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Could the growth of rail impact on shipping and lead to both the Baltic dry index and the HARPEX being reduced by rail competition? Could it start giving wrong numbers eventually over time? There is no equivalent index for global rail tonnage or rail container tonnage. Or at least not one that shows up on google. Everyone uses differing calculations making tonnage comparisons between rail and shipping difficult. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The cold war cut Eurasia in half. With little or no western cargo going through the Soviet Union. While the transiberia railway exists it took most of the Soviet Union's 70 years to finish what the Tzar had started. It also dives far to the north away from China at key locations. Partly to link with river based traffic in Siberia and partly to avoid being cut in a possible Chinese invasion of disputed regions. As soon as the iron curtain fell railway engineers were looking at recycling the steel into railway tracks across the continent from China to Europe. They are succeeding. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There are some huge rail projects out there. China and Europe are now linked by several thousand miles of track through Kazakhstan. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Asian_Railway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Asian_Railway</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">While the UN is the lead organization on such projects the people involved are rail fanatics that have little time for bureaucrats, a hundred Dagny Taggarts (The pretty railway engineer/ Tycoon in Atlas Shrugged). </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The rail trip takes half the time, half the crew, is considered safer. The tonnage is small but will rise fast. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There's a slightly older track too <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuxinou_Railway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuxinou_Railway</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wikipedia has Usage data on it. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">From January to November, 2012, a total of 40 freight trains ran on the Yuxinou Railway, transporting 1747 containers with 21,000 tons cargo, and worth of 1.15billion USD. The freight included 3.062 million laptops and 564,000 liquid crystal display screens. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">(Note these numbers are from 2012 when the track was laid but not all the infrastructure finished. 21000 tons on an unfinished line!)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The first direct China to Spain freight run arrived December 2014. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2867482/First-direct-China-Spain-freight-train-arrives-Madrid.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2867482/First-direct-China-Spain-freight-train-arrives-Madrid.html</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It's fascinating how the various sites talking about this project never discuss how its funded. It's a mix of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), western aid money, international loans and inflated currencies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.unescap.org/our-work/transport/financing-and-private-sector-participation/about">http://www.unescap.org/our-work/transport/financing-and-private-sector-participation/about</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">[From the UN department for vague statements.] </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The problem of how to fund a large rail project goes back to well before Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Ideally it should be private bonds and shares issued by the railways companies paid for by per-tonnage mile fees on the rolling stock. It's likely that the PPPs will be doing this. Technically this makes it no different to every other railway project since the first in the 17th century. Going bankrupt in the process is also a tradition but the rails once built roll on. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Shipping may be cheaper in a world where trade is from one major port to another major port but shipping has three problems. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Often the cargo must be handled several times. Mine or factory to port, port loading, then port to final destination. In many cases once you have it on a truck or train it's easier to turn around and go direct over land. Forget the bottle neck at port and it's hassles, red tape and potential pilfering. When containerization came to Australia our coastal shipping industry just died. Bottlenecks, particularly unionized bottlenecks are bad for business. Only island nations absolutely need to send everything through ports. This is the key behind the Eurasian land bridge idea.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Secondly many see the middle east and the red sea as a potential choke point. A high risk of trade routes being cut by war and piracy. The Somali piracy drove many more people to consider the Eurasian land bridge idea and the trans-Asian railway as an alternative. Note: In some cases this was less about piracy than about American fleets checking shipping for cargo's going to Iran and other dangerous states. An overland route suits some that are prone to get in the US navies sights. Sometimes I think the US navies reasons are good so the rail may pose a long term risk. A nuke on a train is much easier than a nuclear missile or even a nuclear bomb on a boat. A few more neutron detectors near the track will be needed. A Nuke on a container truck trumps all. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Lastly as cell phones open up a million young entrepreneurs in a thousand villages to the wider world of commerce and capitalism, global trade routes will become less about big city to big city and much more about point to point trade in smaller lots. A fish net not a fishing line.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This favor's containers on land routes, and big ships don't do small lots well. Village A in Tajikistan trading it's beef to village B in China. Tajikistan and Kazakhstan has several million head of livestock that never make it to market. Now that there are railheads and spur lines with stock loading facilities (built by Australian and US companies) that massive stock of beef, goat and lamb will reach the world market but very few ports. The geological resources in some parts of central Asia have been barely prospected. There are area's that could rival the US wheat belt undeveloped. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There are however changes in containerization too. Normally bulk cargo is raw materials and containerized cargo is finished goods. When modern inter-modal containerization was first invented by Malcom McLean it was envisioned as moving bulk cargo as well but loading bulk cargo onto normal containers was tricky. Special top hatch equipped hopper containers never filled fully, were hard to clean and were a death trap to anyone in side if miss handled. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">However it can now be done thanks to two innovations: Container Liner bags from various companies and a New Zealand company, Ward that came up with several container loaders. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Here is one in action. <a href="https://youtu.be/4K7Uz-8TYac">https://youtu.be/4K7Uz-8TYac</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">These load and unload containers by standing them on end or tipping them carefully up at an angle. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://a-ward.com/">https://a-ward.com/</a> There machines are a masterpiece of steel and hydrolics. They are selling very well around the world. Here is the unloader. <a href="https://youtu.be/5X2Jd54oM3w">https://youtu.be/5X2Jd54oM3w</a> There are more videos on the site. Check out the horizontal loader. It works like a giant hypodermic full of junk. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">New Zealand is a small country so small lots matter. Getting a boatload of sugar delivered to their chocolate factory makes no sense. As the world develops and decentralizes there will be more small countries. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As this technology rolls out more widely more bulk raw materials will be moving by container confusing anyone using the Baltic dry index and the HARPEX. This technology allows raw materials to go out and finished goods to come in, or vise verse with the one container. No more shipping empty containers halfway around the world passing an empty bulk freighter going the other way. It completes containerization. It also suits the future village to village decentralization of global trade. It will take decades to become significant and there is a need to simplify and automate the installation of container liners. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Equivalent global rail index needed.</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Baltic dry index and the Harpex are both only shipping. There is no equivalent global rail index yet. There are national indexes. This is the USA. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.aar.org/data-center/rail-traffic-data">https://www.aar.org/data-center/rail-traffic-data</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The drop after Christmas is normal and the precipitous drop in the shipping indexes are not matched on the monthly index of US rail traffic. It's too early to see last years results but spot the GFC on the Annual table, you can but it's not as sharp a drop. Rail is cheap, in a crash cheap wins. This will not diminish the bust Gary North is talking about in the top link. It does not invalidate his point. I'm talking longer term. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Russia.</u> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Many of these routes run through Russia. While there are problems political problems between the west and Russia that should pass. Russia will not close these trade routes once they are created. It's an income source and a matter of prestige. There is also a southern route being built through the stans and Iran, Turkey, to Europe. Even major wars do not stop or destroy railways for long. After WW2 the railways were rebuilt within months and at Hiroshima it took only days. The Soviet Union did not stop rail trade it simply botched the process of building the network at all and would have confiscated capitalist cargo's. Outside the Crimea that won't be a problem. Putin is an old cold warrior but not a communist. Neither he nor his rivals in Washington will be there long. I'm looking in terms of decades not years. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>The global big build.</u> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Down in Africa there are plans for big networks linking the landlocked countries and crossing the continent in two places. Mozambique to Namibia via South Africa (already exists but needs upgrading); Tanzania to Zambia (and via Zimbabwe to South Africa and Namibia). South Sudan to Cameroon via the Central African Republic. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAfricaRail">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAfricaRail</a> The intention is to match in Eurasia and Africa and South America the success of the US Transcontinental railroad of a century ago. Most are nearing completion. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Some might think that differing gauges might be a problem but that being solved in several ways. Containers are themselves a solution to that problem and in the earliest case a product of the different gauge problem. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Regauging. The Belorussians at the border with Poland jack the carriages up off the bogies. Roll out the bogies and roll in a new set. The track section has both gauges. This involved a lot of men undoing bolts but robots are being deployed and the bolts replaced with container like interlocks. The passenger never need to leave their carnage and some sleep though the process. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/H-Tr_pamIHY">https://youtu.be/H-Tr_pamIHY</a> at 3.40. There are several regauging stations around the world. This is a relatively old solution. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">However the Talgo system from Spain looks like it will superseded most alternatives. The wheels themselves can be locked into different positions laterally for different gauges. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talgo">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talgo</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/U_LFIUkcPNM">https://youtu.be/U_LFIUkcPNM</a> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Trains using this system now regularly traverse Europe with with its gauge differences between Spain and France/ Germany. It's being tested in Russia. The mechanism was invented when I was 9. 1969 but we had to wait for advances in metallurgy to make it commonly accepted. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qwNl-g_91GE">https://youtu.be/qwNl-g_91GE</a> This is every bit as cool as 3D printing. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There is also a Polish competitor with another spring loaded system. <a href="https://youtu.be/-pHExOfYkYg">https://youtu.be/-pHExOfYkYg</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you know Polish this is a good review of the current regauging technology and related systems. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">However the simplest and cheapest solution for older smaller lengths of track is to put a track renewal unit down the track changing it to the commoner gauge. Differing gauges were not an accident often it was to stop rail based armies rolling into your country a long your railways. If the had to stop and change train then you had time and opportunity to set up defenses or bomb the hell out of the rail border crossing. It worked well for the Russians and was a reason why the Nazis left Spain alone. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Conclusion </u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In simple terms China and Europe are now linked via rail with a capacity exceeding 3 freight trains per week and rising to 21 soon and at half the cost of shipping and equivalent volumes. There are more routes with new or renewed tracks are being laid. The cold wars geography drove shipping but that's over. There are rail links being forged across Eurasia. North south, east and west. As well as China, India, mainland southeast Asia, the middle east are all being inter linked to Europe and even Africa. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This will compete with shipping where it essentially circumnavigates a continent. As a result when the world economy recovers or reforms itself after this next depression. Shipping may lag as an indicator. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have included a lot of youtube links. A picture is worth a thousand words, a video much much more but you don't need to watch them all the way through unless you have time and find it cool like me. This long but hopefully comprehensive and covers all the variables and caveats.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-22428309499452614242015-08-02T02:40:00.000-07:002015-08-02T07:41:54.705-07:00Take on mars fun and games. Take on mars airlock troubleshooting.<br /><br />The take on mars is a new beta game on steam. As a mars fan I've had to play it and I'm chasing up a bug or two for the developers.<br /><br />We have all built airlocks that show no leaks and seen identical to the ones in the ready build demos but don't work. Works first time for the dev's but that's game code for you. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_2K8B6T9mMM/Vb3h2fVPVeI/AAAAAAAAAW4/gzoJ2jk2ROo/s1600/outsidemars_door_frame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_2K8B6T9mMM/Vb3h2fVPVeI/AAAAAAAAAW4/gzoJ2jk2ROo/s320/outsidemars_door_frame.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Outside airlock door in an airlock frame.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K11HPZKjky8/Vb3htO0fyLI/AAAAAAAAAWw/JY8dSfng_Zo/s1600/Sealed_cycled_not_safe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K11HPZKjky8/Vb3htO0fyLI/AAAAAAAAAWw/JY8dSfng_Zo/s320/Sealed_cycled_not_safe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inside the lock both doors closed. Cycle button should work but does not. The thing on my right is the suit charger and oxygen re supplier I need that to work to stay alive. But I need a pressurised airlock to remove the suit. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PU0JQHB0M9U/Vb3h82cSvcI/AAAAAAAAAXA/fUmXOI4IrEY/s1600/safe_but_unpessurised_airlock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PU0JQHB0M9U/Vb3h82cSvcI/AAAAAAAAAXA/fUmXOI4IrEY/s320/safe_but_unpessurised_airlock.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inside the hab I have air, green icon near the handle shows that but I can't charge the suit.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Otherwise its a really good game for an beta. I'm growing virtual potatoes on Mars, &nbsp;yay.&nbsp;</div><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-69486766195031384772015-07-03T21:05:00.002-07:002015-07-03T22:47:05.131-07:00Greek Debacle!<br />Most people may have noticed that greece has gone broke, everybody panicked and then forgot about it. It's really been broke for years all that's happened is that they stopped cooking the books, and ran out of useful idiots willing to fund bailouts.<br />The greek mess has many layers.<br /><br />The whole european plan hinged on the warmer southern states becoming the florida of the EU. The hospitals and other things the Mediterranean states built were for german and dutch retires. They came in droves early on but then something went wrong. They went home! Analysts have been arguing about the causes. Many things have been blamed: Language, poor north south road and rail infrastructure, rumors that greeks make tardy nurses and grumpy servants, rip off merchants, even the fact that you can't get cheap german food in some towns has been raised.<br /><br />All of these problems are insufficient and/or solved but that was after they went home. So greece has a point it's not articulating well at all. Some of that money paid for German nursing homes, tourist resorts and hospitals that just happen to be in greece. A hospital is not particularly portable.<br /><br />The left has not helped. One of the protesters that want's more bailouts from europe but no payments to anyone is an Atheist theology grad. He's backing the no vote loudly outside the parliament in Athens. World wide there are only 4 jobs for atheist theologians and their all taken. He has no hope of ever working. Most of the crowd have equivalent degrees. That's problem no 1. <br /><br />Left wing universities compound the problem by teaching that wages are slavery; capitalism is evil; the free-market means you can, and must, rip people off; and the assumption in public service that bribes are almost OK but commissions for prompt service in the free market is not acceptable. Does that sound familiar? Its on the tea shirts they wear at the protests and riots.<br /><br /><br /><br />The original collapse came because of greek and EU red tape and regulations that make creating a business impossible and profits impossible. With one unexpected expense and no profits in the bank the business goes broke. This is compounded by a tax system that's undecipherable, unpayable (literally in a few cases; the red tape blocks even tax payment)<br /><br />While some these things were fixed by the previous government the current left wing party reversed the fix.&nbsp;&nbsp;Syrisa, Coalition of the Radical Left, still brags about the reforms even though it, and the riots, have blocked their effect in most cases.<br /><br />Some costs are seriously intractable. Greece took in tens of thousands greek refugees from Turkey in the early 20th century. The moslems drove out millions over the century (it was not just Armenians). They and their children still get a special refugee pension and free medical care. Most work but the refugee pension is seen as an untouchable constitutional obligation. That's several billion dollars in obligations greece must find annually and can't reform without rewriting the constitution and a lot of history. Not paying the refugees is seen by some as betrayal or treason. These are the older people at the protest rallies.<br /><div><br /></div>With the banking system locked down to prevent capital flight and the banks going bust (again technically they already are);<br />Even if the greek economy reformed fully it would not work. Any business that makes a profit can't use the greek banking system. They are not allowed to send the money to their german or english bank account. Most businesses that are still running are in fact doing that but via concealed transactions. This compounds the country's problem. Most of the trade remaining in the country is now totally untaxable.<br /><br />Today most banks in greece are only handling pension payments, government wage &amp; salaries and the occasionally tourist related transaction. You can't withdraw more than 60 euros making most economic activity impossible and no one is making deposits. The cash machines are often empty because no actual cash is coming into the bank. Stores and shops are buying safes to hold the cash on the premises. Tourist with bags of Euros live like kings; at least until one gets robbed and killed and then they will stop coming. Some tourist islands with their own airport have essentially seceded from athens but not from the EU! They're ignoring all the rules and in one case sent the bureaucrats away on a ferry. The Autotellers work fine there but the bank branches are not sending cash off island.<br /><br />The good news is that the world's banking systems are not on the hook for most of the debt they have shifted it all to government quangos like the ECB and IMF.They can safely go brock and be replaced with a new quang. Trillions of taxpayers money went into creating these entities but that's how it works. Essential there bad banks. If you're trained in Austrian school economics you know they were doomed from the start. Whatever happens it can't cause a global crash. Anyone still investing in greek related stocks, bonds and investments has already written them off. &nbsp;Anyone that has not cleared their greek debts has been written off by the rest and is wondering why no one answers their emails.<br /><br />The whole mess will not be fixed fast; millions need to be reeducated. A new truly free market government needs to be formed and even the &nbsp;right wing parties in greece are not free market parties. There may not be enough people with free market training in parliament to form &nbsp;such a government.<br /><br />Greece will not leave the EU. It would starve. It won't be kicked out that would start a chain reaction of disintegration. Also the EU genuinely does not want to see greece starve. Europe is also aware that an unstable greece is just what ISIS a few hundred miles away would find an easy target. However leaving the EU does not mean your leaving NATO. [in fact a few greek towns with NATO bases in them are cashed up nicely]<br /><br />It may be able to reboot its tourist industry with 1 cent value drachma. It may already have the money printed. At least one eurosceptic party has also made printing runs of demonstration notes. <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-22/if-troika-says-nein-tomorrow-heres-what-new-drachma-will-look" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br />However printing money is not printing wealth and to buy food or pay your debts you must generate real wealth. Tourism and farming olives will not suffice. It never did. Greece will need to lower its minimum wage down to a competitive rate; provide very cheap accommodation and food for those on the minimum wage. They must ensure that they are not tardy nurses or grumpy servants. They need to win back the german and dutch retirees with cheap culturally appropriate food, good language skills and &nbsp;wonderful deals. &nbsp;They need to also build factories and make cheap stuff like a proper third world country should. (There is another problem there are a lot of competing third world countries gearing up to fill China's shoes.) Greek pride means they may choose to starve first.<br /><br />Do not expect anything much to happen. Greece and Europe are genuinely so badly bogged in an economic and educational mess of their own making that the system can't crash. It can't move fast enough. If there was a nobel prize for procrastination it would have been won 50 times already this year.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-70382123403442986582014-03-28T20:48:00.000-07:002014-03-28T20:49:37.620-07:0011 questions for libertarians. <h1 align="LEFT" class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">11 questions to see if libertarians are hypocrites.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> From: </span></span></span></span></h1><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/09/12/11_questions_to_see_if_libertarians_are_hypocrites/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.salon.com/2013/09/12/11_questions_to_see_if_libertarians_are_hypocrites/</span></span></a></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">I've decided to have a go. </span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The preamble attacks libertarianism solidly with an army of straw men.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1.<span style="color: blue;"> <b>“So our first hypocrisy test question is, </b></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Are unions, political parties, elections, and social movements like Occupy examples of “spontaneous order”—and if not, why not?”</b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Yes but there are alternative now to each: Employment and 'temp' agencies, Charitable clubs and Crowd funding that can and do get things done without waiting for the political process. And Ironically Occupy was funded in part though Assurance Contracts which were invented by libertarians as an alternative to taxing anyone. [Generally the first thing banned by a socialist government are employment and temp agencies that compete with unions. The second thing regulated to death are charities that compete with government welfare.] </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2. <span style="color: blue;"><b>“Which gets us to our next test question </b></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Is a libertarian willing to admit that production is the result of many forces, each of which should be recognized and rewarded?”</b></span></span></span></em> </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">No many markets not many forces. Labour is marketed and justly recognized and rewarded according to skill and effort. The Marxist premise of the question is that labour is a 'force' and that it is not in a market or has skill capital involved. The worker sells his skills to the highest bidder. A business man that bids to low gets no skilled workers. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Is our libertarian willing to acknowledge that workers who bargain for their services, individually and collectively, are also employing market forces?”</span></b></span></span></span></em> </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Yes and an employer that refuses to trade with such a group and employs others is also bargaining and employing market forces. Also If the Union covered, out of fees, unemployment insurance for ex-employees it would be a fully valid market entity. Most would also be bankrupts. Only government can make a closed shop. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">4.<b><span style="color: blue;">“Is our libertarian willing to admit that a “free market” needs regulation?” </span></b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">No! Define regulation? Why should we use regulations that are quickly obsolete in a changing world and can only be changed years late when parliaments get around to it. Insurance, private dispute resolution agencies, quality assurance branding organizations can all do this faster. Also in the free market no one is exempt from boycott or lawsuit where-as someone that is met the regulations but still does harm because they're obsolete or unworkable is cleared in court. Love Canal was fully regulated yet people died. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">5. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Does our libertarian believe in democracy? If yes, explain what’s wrong with governments that regulate.”</span></b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">The majority is not always right. So no an absolute democracy will fail. The free market rewards effort and innovation, no one is excluded from participating, house wives and <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">minorities</span></span> are not excluded from it. Opportunity is equal for all. Thiel's <span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">welfare beneficiaries”</span></span> are those that are taught that effort and opportunity are racial impossibles. They are minorities, socialists of all colour. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Those that are truly disabled, brain damaged or quadriplegics can be supported in the market by non state charity entities and crowd funded trusts but its early days there. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">6. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Does our libertarian use wealth that wouldn’t exist without government in order to preach against the role of government?”</span></b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Yes. While there are many things government has built because it has banned any private agency from building or running the same things; there are still things that government did not build but now owns because it excluded competition and then took ownership. There are other things used by libertarians that the government never built: Linux, bitcoin, most optic fibres, some roads, most ports. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">7. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Does our libertarian reject any and all government protection for his intellectual property?”</span></b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">There is a big split there but it depends on who's defining the property. All are agreed that the current system is broken and needs a free market overhaul. Even the anti-patent school believes in industrial secrecy or trade secrets. Needs more work. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">8. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Does our libertarian recognize that democracy is a form of marketplace?”</span></b></span></span></span></em> </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">No if the consequences do not fall on the voter that voted for something stupid. No if its not an open entry democratic system but on controlled by two or three large parties. Yes if its fully free entry and people suffer the consequences of stupid laws. The free market is a democracy but not all democracies are free. Despotism of a majority over a minority can not be freedom. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">9. <b><span style="color: blue;">“Does our libertarian recognize that large corporations are a threat to our freedoms?”</span></b></span></span></span></em> </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Define large corporations! If open entry in the marketplace exists then no large corporation can be a threat to anyone's freedoms. Remember Kodak and Lehman Brothers? If a corporation offers something new, cheap and valuable it can get very large. However an obsolete corporation can only stay large with government protection. Most of the big banks are zombie banks, in the free market they would be gone and few of us would notice their disappearance. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10.<span style="color: blue;"><b>“Ayn Rand was an adamant opponent of good works, writing that “The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.&nbsp;He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.” That raises another test for our libertarian:&nbsp;</b></span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Does he think that Rand was off the mark on this one, or does he agree that historical figures like King and Gandhi were “parasites”?”</b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">Rand was taught that Charity = communism in her Soviet Union schooling. While she rejected socialism she never could shake that assumption. Altruism is a simple purchase in the free market. It may be entertainment, showing off, advertising, negotiation, or informal insurance (there but for the grace of god go I) . You can't buy love but you can buy respect. In some cases voluntary activity is a form of training and adventure tourism. [And remember Gandhi's victory triggered a war that got millions killed.]&nbsp;</div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">11.<b><span style="color: blue;">If you believe in the free market, why weren’t you willing to accept as final the judgment against libertarianism rendered decades ago in the free and unfettered marketplace of ideas?”</span></b></span></span></span></em></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Who says I'm dead?</span></span></span></span></span></em>Some of us were active without funds for decades. And who says that the American billionaires are the only players? The question ignores the activity in Britain: Adam Smith clubs, Asia much of the rapid development there is linked to people taught under the Austrian school teachers of the 30's. Many books were published and sold well in the 40's, 50's and 60's in many languages. The free market did not reject us only the universities and they're all state subsidized institutions. </div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">So in effect the <span style="color: blue;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Eleven questions that expose their contradictions and faulty logic”</span> only really expose R.J. Eskow's lack of logic and research. Most of what I have said above has been published for decades though the corporation and technology named change decade by decade. </span></div><br /><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-46531544196788331582014-02-15T04:31:00.001-08:002014-02-15T04:31:56.494-08:00Drill mining thing for everquest landmark.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ib5qAofltYY/Uv9eKamYipI/AAAAAAAAAUo/bf59w6PjUO4/s1600/pulvibow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ib5qAofltYY/Uv9eKamYipI/AAAAAAAAAUo/bf59w6PjUO4/s1600/pulvibow.jpg" height="289" width="320" /></a></div><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-16135010212372883902013-11-09T05:34:00.000-08:002013-11-24T18:46:51.531-08:00Do we stand with cryptocurrencies?Should Christians pay taxes? Should they stand against those who would end all taxation? The Libertarian anarchists and cypherpunks. <br /><br />"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, Render unto God that which is God's."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bRE9PB6zEr8/Un4t2Fnv83I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Ike8zv_sTpE/s1600/the_face_on_the_coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bRE9PB6zEr8/Un4t2Fnv83I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Ike8zv_sTpE/s320/the_face_on_the_coin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Mathew 22:21 still stands true today. Even in a libertarian world it would stand true. A coin is a contract. Always implied. Often breached. Yet trusted by many because even flawed money makes trade easier.<br /><br />Taxes are for the claimed purpose of paying for public goods. Things that people may be reluctant to pay for yet need. The reluctance is driven by the Assurance problem. Its not greed. If I pay and no one else pays I loose my money for nothing. Assurance contracts in crowdfunding solve that problem. Coerced taxes are the old solution. <br /><br />In an Assurance Contract you pledge a payment, the billing system, either your credit card or your bitcoin wallet escrows or otherwise protects the pledge. If enough people pledge to reach a stated target (quorum) by a stated date then the transaction goes though. The road gets built or the security company hired for a year. Otherwise nothing happens you keep your money. <br /><br />There is also the free rider problem. I've paid but someone's taking advantage of me. This problem is not solved by taxes any more over 47% are now free riders; payers of no net tax. Again dominant assurance contracts solve that one. An entrepreneur risks a small sum. If the quorum is over subscribed he profits but if the quorum is not met then he losses his money its distributed to the participant. This bribes the free rider to pledge yet it is not gambling because no one can loose money except the entrepreneur.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Both are encoded into Bitcoin.&nbsp;</div><br />The beauty of Assurance Contracts is that you chose the project. You are not coerced. In the case of the dominant assurance contract you are enticed.<br /><br />You have direct funding control. The political middleman is cut out of the public goods transaction.&nbsp; Anyone can initiate a project to fix a public problem. Roads, police, hospital costs, schooling for the poor and disabled, shelter for the homeless and insurance for the uninsured.<br />Parks are already routinely crowdfunded in some cities. <br /><br />Also if a contractor fails to do the task properly he or she gets no more funds. If he or she tries to entangle you in red tape or exploitation your free to immediately seek another that is more creative, innovative and trustworthy. It can pay for the sick and the lame with out funding legion of the lazy. <br /><br />This bitcoin and crowdfunding can form the next level governance replacing the failing currencies of our age and the tyrant of taxation. It will leave the kings, Prime ministers and Presidents of the future debating ethics and history. It will get their hands out of our pockets.<br /><br />It may justly be called anarchy yet it will not be lawless chaos or immoral hell. Some may try but they will find that policing can be crowdfunded too. Some worry that if policing is privatised then they will morph into warlord states. However with bitcoin and crowdfunding they are still constrained. With secure transactions and pseudonyms or anonymity your wallets are secure. They are reduced to base extortion and torture.Limited to stealing goods for barter. Also the blockchain (the global ledger behind bitcoin) may simply blacklist the warlords.<br /><br />The global economic system is crumbling with its too big to fail oligopoly banks, inflationary monies, borders closed to the good but open still to evil.&nbsp; A new system arises from within. Reform is never easy but the end of a broken system is not the end of civilisation.<br /><br />Bitcoin has no face on its coin. It needs none for its a contract with the crowd. Satoshi Nakamoto chose wisely to stay in the shadows. The creators of crowdfunding lecture unacknowledged.&nbsp; <br /><br />Even in a libertarian republic we will be free to render unto God. Libertarian atheists can not censor or exclude anyone you need a state for that. While some Christians have championed censorship for centuries we now fine our selves on the receiving end from many states and institutions we once founded. <br /><br />In the first centuries of Christianity persecution drove us under ground. We were some of the first to use cryptology. The ichthys was a code.&nbsp; <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9vF1LNdGMHY/Un4qKtQ8C5I/AAAAAAAAAT4/Bd266KP3tyc/s1600/Ichthys-1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9vF1LNdGMHY/Un4qKtQ8C5I/AAAAAAAAAT4/Bd266KP3tyc/s320/Ichthys-1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />&nbsp;When the change comes search out the opportunities. Crowdfund through any transitional problems. Pray liberty through. The church needs bitcoin and crowd funding to carry on its mission unhindered by economic turmoil and religious persecution. <br />&nbsp; <br />This is the future. Join in.&nbsp; <br /><br />wes bruce.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">1DNzJGVkVHTfK387ULc4z72tdPriMaAYVe</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PCZX11_DPFE/Un4pmCqEfGI/AAAAAAAAATw/poOKE3AiSR8/s1600/qrme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PCZX11_DPFE/Un4pmCqEfGI/AAAAAAAAATw/poOKE3AiSR8/s1600/qrme.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-21981120136802419992013-05-10T09:07:00.000-07:002013-10-31T05:57:21.326-07:00Making libertarianism work. <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } </style> <br /><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { so-language: zxx } </style> <br />--&gt; <div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u>Twenty things needed to make libertarianism actually work</u>. </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><ol><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The full implementation of bitcoin including its distributed contracts system. <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts">https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts</a></span> This makes it impossible to steal and spend bitcoins. It can insure and arbitrate bitcoins and gold coin. Crypto-currency based contracts are proactive - breaching actions rendered impossible or either side can drop out with minimal loss upon counterparty breach. It lowers "transaction costs".&nbsp; </div></li></ol><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><ol start="2"><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Provision for ripple based gold coin currencies interfaced into bitcoin at floating public exchange rates. In shop gold price and testing technologies.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span> </div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The creation of computer chip sets for houses, cars and a few other items that support <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Smart_Property" target="_blank">Smart Property</a>. Where bitcoin transaction mediate access, rental, collateral control, and deeds. (Part of 1.)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Buffer Escrowed bitcoin gadgets with touch to do transaction that work in remote locations with out long range communications. Several bitcoin wallet suppliers are working on that.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span> </div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Server Sky implementation of orbiting swarm micro satellites that provide ubiquitous communications and computing world wide. Funded by user fees and crowdfunding. <a href="http://server-sky.com/">http://server-sky.com/</a></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A wide range of localised crowdfunding sites to fund Public Goods including: roads, communications, medical, educational, emergency, environment, <a href="http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/citizens-oakland-crowdfunding-private-police-force/#axzz2itEs1fs7" target="_blank">policing</a>, legal, defence and foreign affairs services. <a href="http://bit.ly/mrbridger">http://bit.ly/mrbridger</a> My post on that.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">A wide range of crowdfunding sites to create trust funds for people with disabilities and other genuine welfare cases. Crowdfunds for distribution to top-up private provisions where emergency shortfalls occur.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Crowdfunding of cost effective anti-ageing treatments to reduce aged care needs and cost to near zero. Ending ageing not aged care. Ending dementia.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crowdfunded cures for the brain damage and other adverse medical effects of all p</span><span lang="en"><span style="font-weight: normal;">sychoactive drugs </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">and alcohol so that there is no damage or addiction from such </span><span lang="en"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Euphoria inducing agents. Make safe then legalise.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Freemarket web education tools that allow children to self educate with the help of parents and web mentors. (90% done)</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Child friendly work places and work practices so parents can work while raising and educating the children. So family and work don't clash. This will also help eliminate the demographic problems that have arisen as a consequence of low birth rates. Population limits are not a problem we are already growing plants on the international space station, in deserts and can crowd fund habitat. We may have passed peak Arable land demand.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div lang="en" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Robotic cars so drunk driving is almost impossible and is far less likely to do harm.</div><div lang="en" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crowdfunding for major disease controls including Sexually transmitted diseases. Its possible to crowdfund the competing enforcement of medical and food regulations in the old sense of that word: standardisation and quality control. Because both the producer and the consumer can contribute to the funds there is no regulatory capture or impossible demands.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Basic research identifying the victims of so called victimless crimes and educating people about those effects. Basic moral education emphasising the medical consequences of immorality and why most societies ban: Adultery, Paedophilia, Incest, Sadomasochism, Homosexuality, open and polygamous marriages. Sex education that does not amount to advertising of these things.</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Immorality can be seen by libertarians as a form of non monetary fraud where something unsafe is advertised as safe.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Live embryo transplant. The technology of artificial wombs that allow a baby to be removed from a woman that refuses to be a mother and transferred to adopting parents.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Non lethal weapons that are effective at long range and are free for all to use. Biometric safety systems, 'gun' cameras and tamper proof data transfer to prevent abuse. Open carry of such weapons.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cheap ubiquitous personal bomb detectors and cheap personal body armour. Cheap silk armour, bacteria engineered to make silk, is now available. Some crowdfunded defence and intelligence research.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Jury law with jury nullification, jury independence of the judge and no dismissal of a case without the jury consent. So the judge is just a referee and can't override a jury or a constitution.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Travel insurance providers that also provide legal and political protection while in foreign legal zones with the option for armed rescue in the most extreme of cases. [i.e. Private ambassadorial aid and foreign affairs. ]</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;">A bonded sponsorship immigration policy so that people are free to enter but can not unduly burden native welfare and law. Defence against terrorism is crowd funded as in 6 and via private security at key points. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">While some libertarians may have trouble grasping some points: 14 and 15 and other groups may be concerned at 6, 9, 19 and 20 all things are covered. Responsibility individually and collectivity via the crowd can step up. &nbsp; </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The basic take-home is that new tools are available to fund Public Goods, what government claims to do with your money, without using taxes while also making some crimes, laws and red tape obsolete with embedded cryptological security and other innovations.&nbsp; </span> <br /> </li></ol><div align="CENTER"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Bitcoin tip :</span></div><div align="CENTER"><span style="font-weight: normal;">14mcsYcMrz9texmXMJE1tZwbr2KxEf5dqX</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-87821660430537492282013-04-19T22:35:00.001-07:002013-05-06T00:12:06.924-07:00Policing in a Libertarian Republic. I've been "Arguing" with some libertarians over night (Thurs, fri 19, 2013) that are seeing police response in bombing and subsequent man hunt Boston as dictatorial.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQv1BwNYc7RCSVmmhPGw93kGvTrT9EwlHZpYC2F1k2oKDB2eVWKig" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQv1BwNYc7RCSVmmhPGw93kGvTrT9EwlHZpYC2F1k2oKDB2eVWKig" /></a></div>I've pointed out that in a libertarian republic it would look the same. Same guns, same flack jackets, same big armoured trucks. Drones and helicopters would still search overhead. Cars will be stopped and searched. Doors would be banged on or kicked in if your not home, there would be no warrants at all! That would be small print in your policing service provider contract: you signed the warrant years ago. People caught up might even be strip searched. You signed for that too.<br />Its the technology not the politics.<br />The only differences would be that the badges would say PTY LTD, They would be private companies and voluntary militia. They, like some police today, will be obligated to secure and replace the door they have to kick in at their expense.<br />Some may desire a private policing agency that does not authorise such things but that would be much more expensive for three reasons.<br /><ol><li>Without the resources of such intelligence and search powers their working blind and since they are not immune to prosecution any accident that happens, strip searching the wrong guy etc, would cost them huge damages in court.&nbsp;</li><li>In the private courts of arbitration the arbitrators and juries would have to be told that you've refused to authorise full police intelligence. It would bias the case and cost you greater damages but freedom of speech would mandate such information. In such courts it could not be ruled in admissible. You are hiding something.&nbsp; &nbsp; </li><li>They would also have more unsolved cases.</li></ol>At the press conferences afterwards there would be fewer people called governor or Mayor, there would still be police chiefs, many more than just 6. The policing insurers would have their time at the mic, as would the militia commander, and a dozen security companies like the MIT police and the transit company officers. The press conference would take twice as long. Its all advertising after all. The tea shirts sales and the crowdfunding appeal would follow. <br />In some cases the guys searching you house will leave notes authorising compensation and advertising the companies services on the back.<br /><br />There is another way but its equally risky and more invasive.&nbsp; <span class="userContent">If everyone was armed and trained in the Militia. Then searching Watertown Boston would have taken three minutes. Check your house and yard. Check three others with your neighbour, then everyone checks granny Smith's place and Bob's house b<span class="text_exposed_show">ecause he's out of town. The key technology needed: guns, light vests, torches, a first aid trauma kit and the neighbours spare keys. Ideally you would add biometric gun safeties so the terrorist, criminals or the grand-kids can't use the gun. A cell phone app so everyone co-ordinates and has personal Id friend or foe. A gun camera so you get training footage, film of the capture to sell to WNN* and evidence for your defence in court if anything goes wrong. And you know things would go wrong!<br /> *Web New Network</span></span><br /><br />Some argue that there would be no terrorists attacking the libertarian republic but Islamic attacks pre-date the modern nation state, they pre-date the monarchy's of Europe, they even pre-date the knights and tribes of the early mediaeval era.<br /><br />Islam is a theocratic nation state that seeks global domination. Wearing a knee length dress is considered western provocation. Interest on banking, pig farms and synagogues are seen as illegal or immoral and grounds for attacks. Don't even think about bikinis, nudist beaches or XXX web sites.<br /><br />There are other groups that would be provoked by other things: eating meat, climate change, Abortion, and even private property its self. <br /><br />A libertarian Republic would be attacked ferociously. Some would see libertarianism as a soft target for conquest because it has no central authority. Some would see it as immorality institutionalised. Some libertarians actually desire that. Some will be hunting down dissidents and apostates from other states that have fled to the free-state seeking peace. Some will be pursuing genuine criminals that have fled to your land thinking it is not illegal here. <br /><br />They will try to divide, confuse and conquer. They will play games placing evidence leading in all directions. Only very good intelligence defends against such false flag operations. Only surveillance and search tools produces that level of intelligence. A society with perfect privacy, cryptology, and anonymity is a society where no crime can be investigated or prosecuted unless the individual is caught red handed in public with a dozen witnesses.&nbsp; (Even video would be inadmissible because of privacy)<br /><br />In its own defence and the defence of its clients the private defence companies will need the same tools of a modern nation state. They may have more drones and fewer bombers. They will share between them the cost of an aircraft carrier or two. They can be hit from anywhere in the world so they must be able to hit first at any attacker. They must pre-empt because if their client can be hit from afar then they don't get paid. In some cases the insurers must pay prompt compensation to any client that are harmed. They must strike first, revenge from the grave is not a viable product line for most.<br /><br />Thus with a few small details the defence and policing in a Libertarian Republic will not be radically different. It may eventually develop stun guns, micro-uavs and personal civilian body armour, etc but states are funding that research too. <br /><br />One major difference will be that civilian use of weapons and tasers will be allowed but without a gun camera and biometric lock on the gun your police insurance cost and related security and court insurance will be astronomical. Taser already has both yet its been banned in many countries. <br /><br /><ul><li>Is a libertarian republic possible? Yes.</li><li>Is it inevitable. Yes the current system of nation states are dependant on debt, which is dependant on taxation with both growing infinitely towards bankruptcy. Any alternative must have limited public expenditure with people covering the cost of many things in the free market funded by user pays, crowdfunding, charity and other systems that allow free choices. These are what libertarianism really means. Choice. </li><li>Will it work? Some will, some wont and those that will, will buyout those that don't.&nbsp;</li><li>Will it be all user pays policing and public goods? No there will be crowdfunding, charity and pro bono covering some of the very poor and refugees.&nbsp;</li><li>Will criminal convicts be executed, exiled or left free broke and uncovered? No most will be able to sign up for protection and arbitration at greater cost and much greater restrictions. Only the most uncontrollable repeat offender will be sedated, exiled or if no other option exists, executed. </li><li>Will it be fundamentally immoral, obscene and thus medically and socially dangerous? Yes. Some parts will but that's true of some nation states and governments. They will die out with VD outbreaks etc. </li><li>Will there be morally restrictive liberation communities in the republic? Yes someone will sell that as a legal and law enforcement service or product. As long as you are free to change service provider at no unreasonable cost or physical punishment it would work. It would stop at property lines or at the horizon (view lines).&nbsp;</li><li>Will the Libertarian Republic have Mayors, Governors, Presidents and Diplomats? Yes, some and they will have money to use in their jobs but it will be contractual payments, donations, crowdfunding and profits never coerced taxes.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </li></ul>&nbsp; A Libertarian Republic is like an ocean liner. It is all private property with a fully private 'government' the captain and crew. You are subject to the laws of the ship you really did sign a contract, its not a social contract that all air and undefined assumptions, its a real document or web file. If a killer was loose on the ship it would be the same, stay locked in your cabins while we search fro stem to stern. Just what we saw at Boston in the search for the terrorist. <br /><br />In conclusion while there would be some legal differences and it would not be funded the same way, the operations, actions and appearance of policing in such a man hunt would be the same because its technologically limited. There is no other way yet known. <br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp; Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-91659396027208114692013-02-09T06:36:00.000-08:002018-03-11T13:59:33.733-07:00Rebuttal of Jon Stewart<style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { so-language: zxx } </style> --&gt; <br />This is an old issue but I find that the questions are good and while others have done good rebuttals <a href="http://slstand.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/responding-to-jon-stewart.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=4hhSsIpjtzY" target="_blank">here</a> more can be said. <br />Reply to: <br />The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, October 27, 2011<br /><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-27-2011/andrew-napolitano">http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-27-2011/andrew-napolitano</a><br /><hr /><b>What would be your best response to these questions and statements:</b><br /><ol><li><b>Is government the antithesis of liberty?</b><br /> A. It depends on definitions. Today all governments can coerce taxes and conscription from its population; This dominant kind of government is an antithesis to liberty. An entity that ensures just laws and protects the population from another law code that may invade and force obedience, is compatible with liberty. However that can be done privately by businesses and charities of various forms without tax funding. Even IRA and Al Qaeda have waged war without tax funding. <br /> </li><li><b>One of the things that enhances freedoms are roads. Infrastructure enhances freedom. A social safety net enhances freedom.</b><br /> A. When a new suburb or town is built the roads are built privately by the developer. Private toll ways and turnpikes pre date tax funded roads. The first railways were private and even the Roman roads were built by private contractors. With modern Assurance Contract systems, like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, funding projects in the millions a new era of private roads may be beginning. The same goes for most other infrastructure and safety nets, charities.<br /> </li><li><b>What should we do with the losers that are picked by the free market?</b><br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">A. The free market does not create loosers. Free trade is a win win system the buyer and the seller gives up something of less value to them for something of more value to them. The only 'loosers' in the free market are those unwilling to work to gain something to trade or those who's education, public, fails to prepare them for work. Rather than charity in this case we prefer work skills. "Give a man a fish he eats for a day; teach a man to fish he eats for the rest of his life." </div><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">There are a few disabled people that can not earn any money to participate in the free market. However charities, insurances and mutual societies are all allowed in the free market and freed from the competition from taxes can fund these dependants. The lazy and the envious it will not often fund. &nbsp; </div><ol start="4"><li><b>Do we live in a society or don't we? Are we a collective? Everybody's success is predicated on the hard work of all of us; nobody gets there on their own. Why should it be that the people who lose are hung out to dry? For a group that doesn't believe in evolution, it's awfully Darwinian.</b><br /> A. Yes the sum-total of past investments in public goods does help people. We are not a mindless collective but a cooperating culture. If the free market were allowed to build these public assets then the same hard work would still be evident and our bridges would not be falling down because government see fit to spend its money (our money) elsewhere.<br />&nbsp;Yes there are people who lose and are seemingly hung out to dry for awhile but the free-market allows them to work their way back up. They are not blocked, banned or ruled out of society. If they can not recover there are clearly deficiencies in their education that an entrepreneurial employer or a charity may work to fix. If they are unrepentant criminals both systems may write them off but then even there we see opportunities for both an entrepreneurial employer or a charity. <br /> The majority of libertarians do believe in evolution, I don't, and the majority of creationists are not libertarians so there is an erroneous association being made. Many creationists are minarchist however. <br /> </li><li><b>In a representative democracy, we are the government. We have work to do, and we have a business to run, and we have children to raise. We elect you as our representatives to look after our interests within a democratic system.</b><br />A. Representative democracy does beat other earlier forms of oligarchy however just as science and technology progresses so must governance tools. Our representatives have bankrupted the governments of the world. They pander to the popular vote and that means an ever increasing debt, inflation and/or taxes as they pay back to their supporters and lobbyists. We have institutionalised the art of bribe giving and taking within our electoral systems. Its legal but not viable or able to go on. <br /><br />Jesus said render unto Caesar that which is Caesar and render unto God's that which is God's. But Caesar's face is not on the coin today. The face on the coin changes when a government goes broke. A new change is coming. There are new ways emerging in the free market to delegate lawmaking and security that will free us up to do our work, run our businesses and actually raise our children instead of delegating that to a crowded classroom. <br /> </li><li><b>Is government inherently evil?</b><br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">A. Define government. Is a private arbitration government? Is neighbourhood watch government? Is a private charity hospital government? Yet all three are providing public goods. Any entity that coerces obedience from people that do not and can not consent is opposed by libertarians and minarchists. Most governments are a monopoly on coercion and are thus unwittingly evil. The challenge is to find ways to fund public goods and create laws, enforcement, etc that is contractual or covernental and not coercive. </div><ol start="7"><li><b>Sometimes to protect the greater liberty you have to do things like form an army, or gather a group together to build a wall or levy.</b><br /> A. The Minutemen of American history were unpaid volunteers. Governments and taxes rarely fund the revolutionaries; why should they be needed to fund the public goods of defence. As I have said the IRA, the 18<sup>th</sup> centuries communists and today militant islamists like Al Qaeda operate without either a government or tax support. They are charities. <br /> Governments generally don't fund Civil Defence at all, preferring deterrents (aggressive revenge) and attempting to kill off the rival government. Civil Defence is often left to private charities and private citizens. Mainly because people don't want to be a dead winner they volunteer or fund it. However this often, in a time of great danger, shames government into funding some Civil Defence work. Because public service staff insist on being protected too, publicly funded shelters and other system are usually only found near concentrations of government workers. Everyone else is expendable.<br /> The first levies in Holland were funded using an early form of Assurance Contract voluntarism. <br /> </li><li><b>As soon as you've built an army, you've now said government isn't always inherently evil because we need it to help us sometimes, so now.. it's that old joke: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars? How about a dollar? -Who do you think I am?- We already decided who you are, now we're just negotiating.</b><br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">A. This is a logical fallacy for several reasons: It assumes the only answer to 6 and 7 is no and yes respectively! It also assumes that once created the provider of public goods, Assurance Contracts in my case, and the enforcer of justice are above the law and have a monopoly so they can't be fired and replaced by another equivalent provider. The free market model of public goods (and all goods and services) includes: no barrier to entry and no immunity to penalty. It necessarily includes a foreclosure procedure on all providers of public goods, law and enforcement that fail or breach people rights. This includes parliaments and the nation itself via the means of secession. </div><ol start="9"><li><b>You say: government which governs least governments best. But that were the Articles of Confederation. We tried that for 8 years, it didn't work, and went to the Constitution.</b><br /> A. It was not a libertarian society or state/ states. The Articles of Confederation were effective in limiting government but they had not figured out how to fund the war and some states were not willing to foot the bill because once the British were concentrating their attack elsewhere they were safe. With modern communications and modern warfare such isolationism within a confederation would be harder and new means of funding things now exist. <br /> Stewart is also making the mistake common to Americans of confusing American history with the history of liberty. In other countries much smaller governments have been successful. <br /> </li><li><b>You give money to the IRS because you think they're gonna hire a bunch of people, that if your house catches on fire, will come there with water.</b><br /> A. Yes that's the theory but what happens if they spend the money on an abortion clinic, public art and million dollar public service pensions and leave the fire service unfunded? This today in a hundred ways is the problem. If the fire service were funded by a charity, community chest fund, trust fund or assurance contract you would still get your fire service in the absence of government and taxes. Many 18<sup>th</sup> century fire services were privately funded charities. Australia's rural fire service still is (it gets a few government donations occasionally). The point is you don't control where your tax dollar goes. <br /> </li><li><b>Why is it that libertarians trust a corporation, in certain matters, more than they trust representatives that are accountable to voters? The idea that I would give up my liberty to an insurance company, as opposed to my representative, seems insane.</b><br /> A. Some libertarians don't! They point out that corporations are granted immunity to prosecution in a wide range of fields allowing the CEO and many boards to escape the legal and financial consequences of bad decisions. In the absence of government the heads of corporations would not be absented from common law claims on negligence, fraud and pollution. Industries would have to clean up their act. <br /> A libertarian will also point out that because monopolies are impossible in a true free market, no barriers to entry or government favouritism, there is always the option to buy from someone else. Thus competition means that a corporation that is untrustworthy will quickly go broke as customers move to another competitor. <br /> </li><li><b>Why is it that <i>with</i> competition, we have such difficulty with our health care system? ..and there <i>are</i> choices within the educational system.</b><br /> A. The choice that matters is not just the suppler but whether you have medical insurance. You do not have the choice to support truancy and leave you child completely uneducated. The competition in education is the result of a hard fought battle for private and home schooling; a fight against governments and some times resulting in jail for parents and teachers. In the US medical insurance is often not portable across employers and state-lines; this is the product of government regulation not the product of the free market. In the freemarket there are no state lines. The government funded health care creates a moral hazard, many people choose to remain uninsured because the government system is there. CNN once interviewed people on health care: one girl insisted that she could not afford it yet she had thousands of dollars of tattoos.<br /> The governments have created a shortage of medical services via restrictive licensing and difficult regulation. In the USA it is illegal to prepay your doctor or give them any gifts; The screening of drugs, old herbs and new adult stem cell therapies takes years and millions of dollars yet often the lab work takes only a few days; you can't sign a waver to use an untested treatment and in effect test it. FDA staff and inspectors have gone to jail for bribery. More unreported bribes are rumoured. <br /> And who says the education system is working? Only the unions. 20-30% of the youth are either unemployed, underemployed or are unemployable. It has failed to give them market ready skills and attitudes. <br /> </li><li><b>Would you go back to 1890?</b><br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">A. Yes in terms of the culture and work ethic but we can not go backwards. The real question for Jon Stewart is do you want to stagnate, starve in a depression ration queue, or match the innovation of the 21<sup>st</sup> century with innovations in governance. The status quo leads to either national bankruptcy or hyperinflation followed by national bankruptcy. Greece going global all at once. We are set up for a stagflation crash. You may have money but if its valueless then the shops would quickly empty of useful goods and if you don't have a friend with a good farm even millionaires starve. In 1890 the currency was still gold and silver. </div><ol start="14"><li><b>If we didn't have government, we'd all be in hovercrafts, and nobody would have cancer, and broccoli would be ice-cream?</b><br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-left: 1.25cm;">Yep. Private underwriters firms clears thousands of home appliances a month, declaring the safe or not. The government agencies rarely do a hundred cars and a few dozen pharmaceuticals a year. You have to get separately tested in a dozen countries they can't use the American test in Europe or the Swedish test in Australia. We do actually have the hovercrafts, cures for cancer and liquid nitrogen [broccoli ready] ice-cream makers stuck in government testing or stranded at the patent office by red tape. We have flying cars and robot cars working their way through the government licensing systems. In the absence of government another private company like underwriters would screen things in weeks and their results would be viable world wide. PS. If you put retractable wheels under a hovercraft we would all have viable hovercraft but I can't afford the patent fees. The government set the fee far to high.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><ol start="15"><li><b>Unregulated markets have been tried. The 80’s and the 90’s were the robber baron age. These regulations didn't come out of an interest in restricting liberty. What they did is came out of an interest in helping those that had been victimized by a system that they couldn't fight back against.<br /></b>A. No that was Clinton era government sanctioned real-estate and derivatives fraud run by people that are now advising the Obama government. Again the government had created a moral hazard by promising protection it could not guarantee or fund (Bush tried to fix it but was blocked in congress). A free-market system would not have people victimized by a system that they couldn't fight back against, because class actions and no win no fee would be allowed in disputes with such corporations. They often are not allowed due to government regulation written by the teachers of the people that created the sub- prime debacle. Ben Bernanke taught some of the people that created the sub prime mortgages. They were testing his theory. It failed. <br />The public education system also contributed another way teaching wrong economics. Austrian school economics is banned from the text books and its the theory system that predicted the result.<br /></li><li><b>Why do you think workers that worked in the mines unionized?</b><br /> A. At the time the first unions formed both unions and strikes were illegal in most countries (they still are in the remaining socialist countries). Often the boss was also the government, I.e. Had a post in government, a seat in parliament, a title or was the local magistrate. Thus the first British, European and east coast unions were actually fighting governments directly. Also governments had long before banned negligence and nuisance common law suits brought by employees against employers. <br /> Agencies that could provide free-market labour hire services were also developing at the same time. In some industries they are now common providing all that unions provide at a lower fee. In some industries the union fought successfully to get these competing free-market tools banned. Unlike unions such free market alternative are not immune to the consequences of bankrupting the company that hires it, because labour hire Co is the employer and they often organize unemployment insurance while unions don't. <br /><br /> </li><li><b>Without the government there are no labor unions, because they would be smashed by Pinkerton agencies or people hired, or even sometimes the government.</b><br /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=17210439" name="firstHeading"></a>A. <span lang="en">Pinkerton Government Services </span>was a private company turned government contractor and key people from it went on to become the FBI and the NSA, both full government agencies. <br />Again where the unions are not free to sue such strike smashers then they are bound by government law opposing the union. Where they are free to assault those that want to work and cross the picket, they are again only free to do so because governments put their legal weight behind the strike. Stewart's or <i>'even sometimes the government'</i> breaks his own argument. As a Chinese or Cuban unionist knows its always the government thugs. <br /><br /> </li><li><b>Would the free market have desegregated restaurants in the South, or would the free market have done away with miscegenation, if it had been allowed to? Would Marten Luther King have been less effective than the free market? Those laws sprung up out of a majority sense of, in that time, that blacks should not.. The free market there would not have supported integrated lunch counters.</b><br /> A. Yes it did the government in many places forced new desegregated businesses to re-segregate even where all the white staff and customers were against segregation. <i>Would Marten Luther King have been less effective than the free market?</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> No because many things he did were free market and he was a Republican and planned candidate for that party. In the north of the USA and Canada there was no segregation. There are no state lines in the free market. Where you see a difference across state-lines you know that's government bias in play. </span> <br /> </li><li><b>Government is necessary but must be held accountable for its decisions.</b><br /> A. The rule of law and other public goods are necessary but that need not be the same form of government we see today. How is it to be held accountable without the real challenge of an alternative. If its irreplaceable its unaccountable. Its not just a matter of changing politicians. If 51% of congress and the president were libertarian the public service and lobbyists would fight them day and night. A full redesign in the system from top to bottom is needed in a score of countries at once. We have changed the form of government a dozen times since the apostle Paul said we should obey the powers that govern us. Powers are plural in the greek. It assumes competing (free-market) magistrates, as was the case in some places at the time. <br /> A libertarian society would have freely competing entities providing all public goods and dealing with all public matters (res publica= the public thing = republic) Some would be user pays, some would be charities, some would be hybrids and some would be totally new entities using insurance, trust funds, volunteers, blockchain, etc. None would be tax or tariff funded. It would protect property from theft and lives from injury and death. It would pursue restitution for fraud, negligence and nuisance. It would not be lawless or amoral but you may need to sign off on who provides your law among competing arbitrators. <br /> </li></ol><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-50497694292367897362012-12-14T01:56:00.000-08:002012-12-14T01:56:31.329-08:00WW2 industral giants <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { so-language: zxx } --> </style> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The two men that won World War 2.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Charles Sorensen and Henry Kaiser the masters of mass production.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Sorensen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Sorensen</a></div><br />Mass production of truck, tanks and aircraft and anything else needed. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Bantam-jeep-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Bantam-jeep-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Invented the liberty ship and invented a way to make factories and steel mills pop-up in mere days. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/SS_John_W_Brown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/SS_John_W_Brown.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Without their industry the American giant would not have arisen to face its enemies.&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Who are the men of today that will step up, help us face the threats of today and make the world of tomorrow?&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-74084111997656421062012-10-12T21:56:00.000-07:002012-10-12T21:56:15.460-07:00Intrade fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Intrade is renowned for its accuracy but the question is does it lead or follow can it be gamed, is it being used as a propaganda tool&nbsp; and can it be manipulated to be wrong in the end or will it correct at the last minute. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474" target="_blank">intrade</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the action for oct 12 USA 8 to 12 midnight After the Biden/ Ryan debate noise hit and before the news that the BLS Jobs number had been distorted in the previous week by simply leaving out California without mentioning that little fact. [Head may roll at the BLS before the election if congress goes at this. They will definitely roll after January if Romney wins. ]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Notice two things: The two spikes ringed in blue are clearly someone using a lot of money to pull the market back up to 61 form 60 and failing. Even if Obama wins at the current price their money's gone. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not also the area in dark green. That's a huge number of small trades trying to hold the price up by automated buying at that price anything below it. Again it shows that there are organized players with software driven trading tools in the market. They are trying to keep obama up and Romney down in the hopes that that will influence the vote and demoralise the Romney support base. If anything its having the opposite result on the vote its self.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2rsBRUht-pw/UHjscnyOygI/AAAAAAAAASQ/HIkFdn4cYzM/s1600/intradeoct13.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2rsBRUht-pw/UHjscnyOygI/AAAAAAAAASQ/HIkFdn4cYzM/s400/intradeoct13.png" width="400" /></a>&nbsp;</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It could back fire and loose the obama supporters their money by causing the Obama voters aware of intrade&nbsp; and the other markets to conclude that Obama's a shoe in and can't loose. There is a risk of a lower turn out of Obama supporters thinking they're not needed.&nbsp; </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like wise those aware of this market and its history may try to push harder where it matters. Spreading the message to their friends via new means and old.&nbsp;</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am not a gambling man so I don't bet on intrade but it is fascinating to see these people battle with their (or someone else's money). </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } </style>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-7323603312749975212012-08-14T07:11:00.003-07:002012-08-26T03:16:37.255-07:00Making Abortion Obsolete.<style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> <br /><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Ectogenesis - Saving the millions while ending the Abortion debate forever.</b></u></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Abortion and RU-486 debate is being fought as well an can be expected. I commend all those that have fought the battle well, championing our defenceless unborn brothers and sisters.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The disgrace of abortion will remain while we have only two choices life or death, moral [immoral] liberty or bondage to the ‘dangers and inconveniences’ of parenthood. </b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> To sanction death of the innocent for the convenience of a few who find parenting a burdensome responsibility is unjust. I suspect however this generation will need to suffer the consequences of their folly before they will learn the error of their ways. The abortion challenge has many layers at the federal and state level. The laws themselves are often state laws. Support for education and family support are both federal and state. Many of the pressures to have unprotected sex and have an abortion are cultural challenges. </b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> The western world and Japan are suffering a catastrophic consequence. Population decline and the demographic winter problem where an aging population can't support itself; there are not enough young workers to pay the pensions of the older citizens. There may be not enough young people even to care for the elderly in nursing homes and hostels.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>&nbsp;</b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>A challenging new solution.</b></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>There is a way to break the nexus between life and choice but it will ethically challenging for it raises other ethical questions. It would create a new debate. One where many pro-choice people, opposing us today, would end up on our side of the debate. It is not a quick fix but it may be a path towards. An honourable end to the infant genocide. Live embryo transplantation or ectogenesis.</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> We are loosing millions of helpless babies slaughtered simply because they are unwanted and unloved by their parents. Or their parents and society is ill prepared to support them. Yet at the same time we have a shortage of babies available for adoption and we have an ageing population that can’t support its long term needs.</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> How do we move from a pro-death society sanctioning medically enabled and legal infanticide to a prolife society quickly?</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> In 1924, the British scientist J. B. S. Haldane coined the term "ectogenesis" to describe how human pregnancy would one day give way to artificial wombs. A friend and colleague Aldous Huxley wrote “brave new world”. This turned the worlds eyes away from the benefits to the dangers. Haldane was a socialist and a leading evolutionist in his day. However Haldane was not trying to abolish Gods institution of pregnancy; he was writing in an age of high maternal and infant mortality. That’s what he was trying to end.</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> The benefits are:</b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>It can save both lives where the pregnancy would be dangerous to the mother.</b></div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>It, in theory, could save premature babies that are far too premature to survive in a humidicrib.</b></div></li></ul><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Many think it will end the abortion debate by allowing both the pro-choice and prolife sides to have their way. </b> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>We are approaching the point where we can remove an embryo from the womb alive and keep it alive outside the womb. Around 2001:</b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Dr Hung-Ching Liu had cultured a working womb from tissue taken from a womb. American regulations required her to terminate the embryos at two weeks. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Dr Yoshinori Kuwabara in Tokyo had taken goat kids to full term in a device called a “Uterine tank”. </b> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>To summarise the Clinical Ectogenesis process is the technology to remove the baby from the womb alive and place it in an artificial womb and take it to full term. Live embryo transplant goes further and moves to the point where we can take an early embryo unharmed from a woman that doesn’t want it and implant it in a medically prepared mother that does. </b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>It amounts to moving the debate away from mass infanticide to a process of adoption direct from the abortion clinic. In considering the future of the unwanted unborn we can’t ignore this technology, with a little research, it may be available with in three years. </b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0.64cm;"><b>Most think the technology will look like this:</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></div><div lang="en-US" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J8J01uPts90/UCpZKNzwarI/AAAAAAAAAOg/XAjj8afF9vY/s1600/matix.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J8J01uPts90/UCpZKNzwarI/AAAAAAAAAOg/XAjj8afF9vY/s400/matix.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>Or this:</b></div><div lang="en-US" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6AlcvxogcMw/UCpZq3GVdWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/YXaMdPj4NqA/s1600/172-womb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6AlcvxogcMw/UCpZq3GVdWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/YXaMdPj4NqA/s400/172-womb.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><b>But this is the reality: A simple neat tank and a few tubes to the relevant equipment. </b><br /><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3R_1v9WiA8w/UCpaBQnOvMI/AAAAAAAAAOw/JTGxOEnNsgM/s1600/ziege.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3R_1v9WiA8w/UCpaBQnOvMI/AAAAAAAAAOw/JTGxOEnNsgM/s400/ziege.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div lang="en-US" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tXX3k8O353w/UCpaMYTtruI/AAAAAAAAAO4/9LZAE7iEgzc/s1600/Artificial_Womb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tXX3k8O353w/UCpaMYTtruI/AAAAAAAAAO4/9LZAE7iEgzc/s400/Artificial_Womb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It’s not cheap or pretty but it’s a start.&nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: always;"><b>Yes it is unnatural. That is true of all modern medicine. </b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>So is a feeding tube in the Terri Schiavo case or Pope John Paul’s case. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>So is a heart bypass. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>If we oppose euthanasia of the severely disabled we are often backing unnatural intervention.</b></div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>If the Lord chooses, he will allow the technology to develop and become safe, cheap and ethical. It will be legally constrained with laws written by Godly people.</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>If however it comes without our prayer and care. </b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>It may be done in secret. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>It will probably be neither safe nor cheap. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>It will be the plaything of dictators and unethical people. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>There will either be no rules or red tape that binds justice up in knots.</b></div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0.64cm;"><b>Take a look at adult stem cells. Many in the church and key politicians championed them over embryonic stem cells and in a few short years great things have happened.</b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Paralysed people walk.</b></div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Brain stem cells are being tested. In mice they repair stroke. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>We have dozens of new adult stem cell lines. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Breast tissue stem cells were announced just in 2006. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>We are growing teeth in the lab.</b></div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The leading Embryonic stem cell researcher in 2006 apologised for scientific fraud and is mired in scandal and law suits.</b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>I know of no cures that have come from embryonic stem cell work that do not create a cancer risk. </b> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Ectogenesis may seem daunting but look at the alternatives!</b></u></span></div><div align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S9Yf32biXxU/UCpbZX6wsCI/AAAAAAAAAPI/sc7Bm9fXHlQ/s1600/Abortion+Holocaust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S9Yf32biXxU/UCpbZX6wsCI/AAAAAAAAAPI/sc7Bm9fXHlQ/s1600/Abortion+Holocaust.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r6P9JAdS96M/UCpbSo4NKYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/2KRNSQiBWnE/s1600/35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r6P9JAdS96M/UCpbSo4NKYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/2KRNSQiBWnE/s320/35.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>If we took on ectogenesis will the Lord also bless it?</u></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Some might baulk and ask are we allowing immorality and irresponsibility to prevail if we take on this technology? Do the pro-choice lobby deserve the choice?</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Consider this; </b></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Aborted babies don’t vote; adopted ones do. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>They will be often raised in Christian or at least pro-family homes. </b> </div></li><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Garrett Hardin in the famous “The Tragedy of the Commons” paper (1968) warned that if the pro-lifers were allowed to breed freely they would out breed the population control people and the earth-firsters like him.</b></div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: always;"></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Most importantly.</b></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;"></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>Roe v Wade reverses from pro to anti abortion if this technology is available in its jurisdiction. That only effects America legally but culturally it will effect the whole world. </b></span> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;"><b><span style="color: #111111;">The Roe v Wade verdict is predicated on the inability to grant both life and choice. If survival of the baby is possible the wording would imply that ectogenesis would be favoured over the death of the baby.</span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>See: ECTOGENESIS <br />Development of Articial Wombs Technology's threat to abortion rights</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sacha Zimmerman Sunday, August 24, 2003</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/24/IN273768.DTL</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;"></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>We will end up running some or most of the clinics. If the abortion clinic becomes an adoption clinic; it will not be closed to the prolife people. We who are arrested at the door for protesting would be inside assisting the mothers. Many women would leave the clinic with their own baby still on board having found at last a supporting environment for themselves and their child. </b> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><ul><li><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The camouflage of pro-choice or women’s rights will be removed from the pro-abortion, eugenics and the population control lobbies. Most pro-choice people would be pro-ectogenesis if it were advocated and became safe, convenient and ethical. Those that advocate abortion for other reasons are a small fraction of the millions who are pro-choice. These people are Malthusian in their thinking; seeing the world as overpopulated and doomed. They are often technophobic seeing no solutions in new technologies such as fusion or space colonisation. They are unimpressed by new resource management practices, innovative recycling technologies, sustainable lifestyle services or energy reduction enterprises. Abortion to them is all about population control and little else. Yet such people are very rare indeed within the debate and would never command a majority at the ballet box. </b> </div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Yes we can fight abortion with Laws, education, evangelism and revival. We might see the issue batted back and forth across the media and parliament endlessly. We could see it lost to an obscure bureaucratic committee. The prolife lobby may even win in 80 to 100 years. That’s arguably how long the last reformation took with its conflicts in many parliaments and on bloody battlefields.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>&nbsp;</b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>As we fight we lose thousands of little lives per day.</b></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>We could be saving them in ten years or less if we tried to get this alternative established. If politics is the art of the possible then we need to think laterally and look for the third path.</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> We are forewarned and forearmed by Huxley and other science fiction writers. Leading ethicists have considered the risks. The dangers of some idiot trying to clone an army or create subhuman slave species are known. The dangers that some future humanist society may try abandon motherhood altogether are foreseen. They will most probably destroy themselves in the attempt. Unless they out law pregnancy and family or try to exterminate us “breeders”; we can leave them to their folly. Others have tried to abolish family replacing it with institutions of various kinds. It always fails. Perhaps we can rescue a few million disillusioned refugees when it all goes wrong. None of the dangers are as real or as monstrous as the death of the defenceless. </b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> The challenge we face is not to deal with every possible abuse of new technology but to be those that have sought the just applications, to have considered and are prepared for the consequences, to have sought alternatives. If we can’t legislate the dangers away then we can’t legislate anything and we are defeated.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>For us there are other things that will be cheaper still than the clone warriors of star wars, the medical clones in the movie “The island” and the human batteries of the matrix. We should remember that a dictator does not need artificial wombs, he has something much cheaper, a women's prison!</b></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>If we put ectogenesis on the table, fund it a little, look at its consequences then we have moved the debate forward from today's stand-off. If we ask Gods help and guidance then will he not honour our request with a solution?</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>Are we ready for the challenge! Dare we seek to save millions. Dare we not!</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><b>Wesley Bruce</b></div>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-80737666516461475742012-05-15T09:17:00.000-07:002016-12-04T00:39:10.104-08:00Crowd funding government.Would you accept this deal?<br />Someone on a blog was talking of sacking all public servants. <br />It's the wrong strategy. <br /><br />We need to make the public service work like the market. We have emerging tools. Block chain, Crowd sourcing and insurances can do 80-90% of what governments claim they are there to do. <br />Our public servant needs to be a true Public Entrepreneurs.<br />Tools need to be set up to make them such entrepreneur<span class="text_exposed_show">s. It's mostly just software as the links below show. <br /> Try these examples. <br /> <br /> The bridge needs fixing. A&nbsp;Public&nbsp;entrepreneur, Mr Bridger, has $10000 and the connections to get it done at&nbsp;$200000.<br /> He offers the following deal on yourroad.org *<br /> Pay $1 - $10 and get an internet thank-you note. <br /> Pay $11-$100 and you get a sticker to put on your car. <br /> Pay $101 and your name will be embossed on the handrail. <br /> Pay $2000 and you get a table at the bridge opening dinner (max 20 seats be quick).<br /> If $200000 is raised/pledged by November the money comes out of your account and the bridge will be repaired. <br /> If under $200000 is raised by November your money will be refunded (or never collected from your account), You will still get the internet thank you note and Mr Bridger will pay you $5000/ the number of individual participants. <br /> If more than $200000 is raised; its oversubscribed. Mr Bridger will take a 5% profit from the surplus, contribute half the remaining surplus to charity (named) and will find another bridge.<br /> Needless to say the thank you note, sticker and embossed handrail all cost a fraction of the remaining $5000.<br /> <br /> This is the most powerful crowd funding contract possible. If the 200000 is raised the bridge gets fixed. If not; those giving up their credit card details 'get their money back' with a tiny profit. The&nbsp;Public&nbsp;Entrepreneur only risks $5000 of his $10000. He may spend some of the rest on advertising in October if he's close. <br /> <br /> The first actor problem is solved. Anyone contributing first risks nothing and may even profit if he is the only person tossing into the hat. Digital tracking makes the transactions on the site cheap treading to free. Frauds get dropped from the site. The cost is spread thinly over many people so the free rider feels little financial pressure but a little social pressure "Where's your sticker Bill?" With less than 50% paying tax the free riders are abundant today. With some of that tax being public service staff pay going around and around in the tax system the numbers are often much lower.<br /> <br /> How would this finance a pension for a disabled person? These are the true undisputed poor not the lazy. This is medicaid, public health and the third rail of social security.</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> It's simple, Create an assurance contract for an eligible person, the money if raised goes to create a savings account (with a gold based inflation hedge if needed). Part of the interest is compounded part is paid out as weekly instalments. The biggest and best target would be about $500000. At 5% that would pay $235 week; 52 + 1 Christmas bonus. With half compounded until the trust's doubled. If there are exotic medical costs another round of fund-raising would buy extra medical insurance. This person is set for life and never needs to be a government problem ever again. This would work for veterans too.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> How would it do flood rescue? Buys equipment, train people, pays a very poor person to put his house up on stilts. <br /> Can you create a private animal park and put tracking collars on lions? Their already being funded this way. <br /> <br /> What would you not fund?<br /> If you think the town drunks not worthy of your money would you throw a dollar in for the chance of the&nbsp;Public&nbsp;entrepreneur's $5000?&nbsp;</span><br />Most known classes of public goods have been done. Police, parks, roads, medical research, hospital care, getting into university fully funded. <br />One girl from South America crowd funded a position in a top US UNI without knowing that she needed to meet other conditions besides just having the money but they waved the conditions. They wanted her crowd funding skills.<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Public&nbsp;entrepreneur's&nbsp;replace bureaucracy, treasury and money bills in legislatures. It's a better deal than lobbying and paying off a politician so it may partly eliminate E street [The lobbyists in Washington. Every capital has it's equivalent. ] It replaces debt funding of the projects people genuinely need and want doing.<br /><br />An Assurance Contract could fund a money bill in the legislature in a fraction of the time of the normal political process. Everything with the exception of law and defence could be crowd funded and we could Crowd fund equipment, insurances and research there too. <br /> <br /> Is the freerider still riding free? Yes so are all non taxpayers today. <br />Are there positive externalities to others? Yes but so what if Joe from interstate gets to cross the bridge once a year! <br />Are there any externalities that can't be financed this way? I don't think so. We can only find out what can't be funded by trying.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">Are some projects too big? Yes but subdividing a project that is unworkable due to size into several smaller ones may succeed.<br /><br /><br />There may be a few cases where the money is raised but the task turns out to be impossible, beyond the organisers capability, or just silly. However this happens all the time with your tax dollars.<br /><br /> As long as it's as easy as posting on facebook, as simple as Kickstarter or indiegogo. It's mostly free digits until you hit the target. Then it will fly like this kickstarter project. <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>projects/597507018/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>-and-android</a><br /> Kickstarter is 'no dollars down' preorder capitalisation! {Business finance banks are toast.} <br /> <br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>Assurance_contract</a></span><br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">Bitcoin already includes provision for this level of crowdfunding.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Dominant_Assurance_Contracts">https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Dominant_Assurance_Contracts</a></span><br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">&nbsp; * yourroad.org is not real, yet.</span>Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210439.post-18882112659070892282012-05-06T02:14:00.000-07:002017-08-25T05:47:29.828-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;"> <b><u>&nbsp;Wood Gas Cars. </u></b></h2>If Climate change were real and the IPCC were truly about saving the world then maybe they would grab something that works and make it better. <br /><br />Wood gas works. Its old technology. Its zero carbon. Its free fuel in some cases, cheap fuel in the city. It can be improved.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/images/Wood_Gasifier1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/images/Wood_Gasifier1.jpg" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="504" height="246" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.driveonwood.com/">http://www.driveonwood.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_33503319"><br /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1981-05-01/Wood-Gas-Truck.aspx">http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1981-05-01/Wood-Gas-Truck.aspx</a><br /><br />Its worked before: WW2<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ycJE7KgO60">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ycJE7KgO60</a><br /><br />It works now: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjUJPeUh7A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjUJPeUh7A</a><br /><br />Its loose in Australia: <a href="http://www.gasificationaustralia.com/">http://www.gasificationaustralia.com/</a><br /><br />An old site: <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/energy21/woodfire.htm">http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/energy21/woodfire.htm</a><br /><br /><br />There is a hundred video's on youtube alone. <br /><br />So why is this an ignored solution? Why has it not been optimised using all the resources of government and a thousand universities? <br /><br />The answer is when they say their pulling out all the stops, trying everything, doing whatever is possible! Their not quite lying but its close! They can't even know that they are wrong.<br /><br />Governments try to pick winners but the process automatically excludes those that don't call for help or subsidies. This technology needs no subsidies. That makes them invisible to government. Also because those that are invisible to government compete with those getting the subsidies the solutions that work become blocked by the ones that don't quite work. We get technology that needs government help and subsidies and thus can never truly be THE Solution.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />So how do you optimise and improve such a technology.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Woodgas_farm_truck.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Woodgas_farm_truck.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><ol><li>Hybridise for city use: Add 40 km of lithium batteries, that's not expensive or heavy. Add all electric drive and regenerative breaking. </li><li>Add an optimised 1/4 size gasifier and filter with a small motor optimized to charge as you go. Use an automated blow torch ignition system for the pyrolysis system and computer control. Design the car around the gasifier with a rear engine, gasifier and filter. A rear camera to eliminate the blind spot. Put a baggage compartment in the front.</li><li>I would try a fluidised bed sand filter on the hot gases. In a fluidised bed filter gas flows up through sand. The hot sand catches and cracks tars and ash into light combustibles. The sand also flows and can be made to flow past a heat exchanger to dissipate heat.&nbsp; </li><li>Some WW2 models used water spray filters to wash and cool the gas. That also converts some of the carbon monoxide, the main fuel in wood gas, into hydrogen.&nbsp; </li><li>For optimal no fuss shop bought fuel. Pre pack the fuel in cylindrical pucks made of blocks cut to size and glued with proper spacing between two paper sheets with a sheet around the edge. Add a paper handle. Make each puck under 6 kg. At the petrol station converted to a multi-fuel depot add a raised platform, steps and a remote locked cage of fuel pucks. </li><li>Invent a briquette machine that converts straw into pellets so it can run on grass in the plains and the savannah.</li><li>I would also add a HHO system: an electrolysis cell making mixed oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen would bias the flame speed and timing back to normal allowing smaller engines.&nbsp; CO burns slower that petrol; hydrogen burns faster than petrol. The two should balance.&nbsp; </li></ol><br />The first priority is the hybrid and the compact optimised power-plant. Everything else will follow as the technology optimises. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Less like this:</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bioage.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/opelkapitan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://bioage.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/opelkapitan.jpg" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="639" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">More like this:&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.speednik.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/08/reader-reaction-corvette-mods1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://cdn.speednik.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/08/reader-reaction-corvette-mods1.jpg" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />I don't think governments can do this. I don't think they can even see real solutions. What's best for the voters is not best for the bureaucrats. Solve a real problem and you kill off a bureaucrats job. <br /><br />The Earth First greens will automatically oppose this. To them Wood means the evils of forestry. Sustainable human intervention in nature is inconceivable.&nbsp; They will scream 'deforestation'! We must safe guard against that in some third world counties and government run forests, because they are the remaining commons on land. The "Tragedy of the commons" can only happen with government land, tribal lands and the seas. Private lands are not commons. <br /><br />I don't think Anthropogenic Greenhouse effect is having any catastrophic effects on humanity or the biosphere. Change happens in all ecosystems and climate change is normal. <br /><br />However if Peak Oil is real and solutions are needed. Wood gas as it is currently configured is a good fuel for those in naturally wooded country side. It can be free as the above sites show.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6253439485_4bc6bc3717.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6253439485_4bc6bc3717.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />It requires skill; but so did all engines once.<br /><br /><br /><br />It can provide stationary power.<br />&nbsp;<a href="http://gasifier.wpengine.com/personal-energy-grid">http://gasifier.wpengine.com/personal-energy-grid</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/-/media/Images/MEN/Editorial/Blogs/Renewable-Energy/Turn-Wood-into-Free-Motor-Fuel-with-a-Wood-Gasifier/woodgas-generator-jpg.jpg?h=424&amp;w=550&amp;la=en&amp;hash=2F423F46AD63FC9187C6E8C35C835871CCC797D1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.motherearthnews.com/-/media/Images/MEN/Editorial/Blogs/Renewable-Energy/Turn-Wood-into-Free-Motor-Fuel-with-a-Wood-Gasifier/woodgas-generator-jpg.jpg?h=424&amp;w=550&amp;la=en&amp;hash=2F423F46AD63FC9187C6E8C35C835871CCC797D1" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="550" height="246" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_33503331"><br /></a><a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/Renewable-Energy/1981-07-01/Mothers-Backyard-Homestead-Utility.aspx">http://www.motherearthnews.com/Renewable-Energy/1981-07-01/Mothers-Backyard-Homestead-Utility.aspx</a><br /><br />Can this be used on every car and tractor in the world? No but this will work where electric vehicles fail. Optimised it will put a big dent in any energy shortage. <br /><br />Here are some Swedes having a go in 1942. Full factory production.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGO5J9HMkGE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGO5J9HMkGE</a><br />(If someone can do subtitles that would be nice. One American wood gas enthusiast caries a small electric chainsaw in his car. I bet these swedes wish they had one.)<br /><br />Edit: Fixed the dead links.<br /><br />Wesley Brucehttps://plus.google.com/100168350559467166731noreply@blogger.com6